CLUSTER TRANSIT-PUBLIC-WEB · 20 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-02-04
Real-time public transit apps
A cluster of mobile, web, and terminal apps providing real-time departure/arrival times, trip planning, and service alerts for public transit networks across European cities(Paris, Vienna, Turin, Stockholm, Germany, UK, etc. The documented creation timeline is sparse: a single entry in2014, a five-year gap, then sporadic entries from late2019 through early2026, often single per year(or two in early2020. Traction leaders–AmSprung, KTrip, and BusTO–are identified by activity signal, though all currently have zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 4 hobby · 2 commercial · 12 open source · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01bitnbuild2★23 days—hobbyMobile app that plans multimodal transit journeys across buses, ferries, and autos with live schedule updates and transfer notifications.
- 02sl-tavla0★16 days—hobbyDesktop app that shows live public transport departures from chosen stops as an always-on-top amber LED dot matrix board.
- 03rota0★13 days—hobbyMobile app that provides live transit maps, stop arrival predictions, and route planning for buses and trams.
- 04NS Travel Planner0★19 dayslivecommercialMobile app that plans door-to-door journeys across trains, buses, bikes, and shared cars, with ticketing and real-time disruption alerts.
- 05Buses0★1 moliveopen sourceMobile app that shows a map for finding nearby bus stops and displays real-time bus arrival times across Great Britain.
- 06AmSprung0★2 moliveopen sourceA public transport app that shows real-time departure times for a city's stops, sourced from the official transit API.
- 07Translink Planner0★4 molivecommercialPublic transit app that plans bus, coach, and rail journeys in Northern Ireland, shows live departures, and sells train tickets.
- 08KTrip0★3 moliveopen sourceMobile and desktop public transport navigator that plans journeys between any two selected locations, shows live departures per station, and alerts on delays and disruptions.
- 09BusTO0★17 daysliveopen sourceApp that provides real-time arrival times for public transport in Turin and its outskirts.
- 10bptt0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal app that displays British public transport departures, arrivals, and other travel information.
- 11Railway0★4 moliveopen sourceMobile and desktop app that looks up trip details, delays, and platforms across transportation networks worldwide, with bookmarking and advanced search filters.
- 12Bimba0★5 moliveopen sourceMobile app that shows real-time public transport departures, nearby stops, and live vehicle locations across multiple cities.
- 13Paris Transport Traffic0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTravel app that provides real-time traffic status for Paris metro, RER, and tramway lines.
- 14Transportr - Public Transit0★10 mostaleliveopen sourcePublic transit app that plans trips, shows live departures with delays, finds nearby stations, and saves favorite places.
- 15Tridenta0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile app that shows real-time public transit stops, lines, and trip delays for commuters in a specific Italian region.
- 16KTrip0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that shows real-time public transit departures and plans journeys between destinations using data from multiple transport providers.
- 17Haltestellenanzeige (Display Monitor)0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that shows real-time public transit departure times for stops across Germany, with saved stop monitors and home-screen widgets.
- 18あてのない乗換案内 Athenai Transit0★unknownliveTransit app that shows upcoming bus and train departures to let users explore a city without a fixed destination.
- 19WienerTime0★unknownlivehobbyWeb app showing real-time departure and traffic data for Vienna's public transit network.
- 20SL Departures0★unknownliveai-builtWeb app that shows real-time departure times for public transport in Stockholm.
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