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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by ahussain on Monday October 03, 2016 @08:42AM (#12626993)
In London you can go to the TFL website and see live updating times for when the bus will get to your stop: https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/stations-stops-and-pie...
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by eriknstr on Monday October 03, 2016 @09:11AM (#12627173)
Oslo, Norway has realtime data available for all stops as well :)

http://reisapi.ruter.no/Help/Api/GET-StopVisit-GetDepartures...

>Returns a List of StopVisits (departures) from a Stop. If no time parameter is supplied, departures in realtime will be returned.

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by masklinn on Monday October 03, 2016 @08:47AM (#12627026)
OK, that's really cool. Definitely means they have "a server, 3G/4G connectivity [and] GPS" though.
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by makomk on Monday October 03, 2016 @03:12PM (#12630402)
Not necessarily. I think some of the systems use radio links to a central location and transponders at fixed points on the route to track the buses.
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