Google Maps is great for transit directions , but what if you want a gods - eye view of a city ’s public transportation web in motion ? TryTRAVIC .
Developed by University of Freiburg grad student Patrick Brosi andgeOps , TRAVIC ( Transit Visualization Client ) harvestspublic data feedssupplied by passage operator like L.A. County ’s Metro to visualize the placement , 2d - by - second , of all the coach and trains in a give system . transportation system fomite appear as colored Zen on a function . select a dot , and the software will highlight the applicable route on the map and name scheduled arrival / departure time :
well of all , it ’s animated . By default , the package runs in realtime so that the dots just fawn along the metropolis street , but users can speed up the animation as much as 60x . At that charge per unit , the buses and trains travel rapidly through the metropolis , and it ’s much well-to-do to visualize frequency — and hence how well a neighbourhood is saturated with transit options .
Here ’s the area around Union Station , a major transit hub for Los Angeles :
TRAVIC really integrates data from72 feeds covering cities on four Continent , so there ’s much more to explore beyond the Southland . Here ’s a snapshot of Manhattan :
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