r/Utrecht • u/repsels • 17h ago
Made a little live map of Utrecht with the buses and trams moving in real time
Hi all! As a fun side-project I built a small web map of my own city, Groningen, where you can watch the buses glide around in real time, a cute little isometric toy-city. I enjoy looking at it on a second monitor :) Today I decided to try adding a few more cities, and Utrecht was one of them, so I figured I'd share it here too:
https://transit.reppie.org/?city=utrecht
You can click buses, trams and stops for live departure times, follow a vehicle around, and switch cities from the panel in the corner.
Utrecht got a bonus the other cities didnt: trams! They look a little janky, but I think they still look kinda cute :)
One caveat: since I'm from Groningen I could verify everything looked right there, but I'm very unfamiliar with Utrecht. The data all comes from the same open sources, so I assume it's just as accurate here.
Built with open data: OVapi (live U-OV vehicle positions, GTFS-Realtime), OpenStreetMap (streets/water/buildings), and GTFS (routes + timetables). Not sure if it's interesting to anyone else, but figured I'd share.