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You can get bus times from Google Maps. But almost nobody seems to know that. A standard "non-profit" bus app that all bus companies could use would probably
by AndrewDucker 1y ago
You can get bus times from Google Maps. But almost nobody seems to know that.
A standard "non-profit" bus app that all bus companies could use would probably be very useful.
- tialaramex 1y agoIsn't Google just giving you timetables? That's not useless but it's no substitute for real time information. Seeing "Your bus is six minutes away" is reassuring in a way that "Well, the bus isn't scheduled for another minute, and maybe it's running late" is not. In that "Oops, it's diverted" case which annoyed me, my bus was, from that point of view, genuinely getting closer, I could see it on the map. And then I realised, with growing horror, that it's on a road which won't pass me. Maybe that's a glitch? Then I saw the bus itself, in the real world, too late it's actually not coming here.
- themulticaster 1y agoThere's both: GTFS is a standard for the regular schedule, and GTFS-RT is a standard for realtime information. Link: https://gtfs.org/documentation/realtime/reference/ https://gtfs.org/documentation/realtime/reference/