Here's my chance to plug something I wrote long ago (back in 2012), and revived earlier this month. I used the train/bus/riverboat schedules from Transport for London (TfL) to create an animated view over 24 hours of every single vehicle as it journeys through London. The 2021 version is in 4K at 60 fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rj60B7w59s – with details posted here: https://log.kv.io/post/2012/06/04/public-transports-in-londo...
"Open train data" is a bit vague without mentioning where these trains might be, but I did find the London Tube schedule[1] in GTFS[2] format, as well as the bus schedule[3] also in GTFS format. Look for your city or country name followed by "open data" and you might find interesting datasets. In the UK the National Public Transport Data Repository (NPTDR) publishes a database of every public transport journey in Great Britain for a selected week in October each year[4] (only goes until 2011 though).
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I wish there was open train data.
Here's my chance to plug something I wrote long ago (back in 2012), and revived earlier this month. I used the train/bus/riverboat schedules from Transport for London (TfL) to create an animated view over 24 hours of every single vehicle as it journeys through London. The 2021 version is in 4K at 60 fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rj60B7w59s – with details posted here: https://log.kv.io/post/2012/06/04/public-transports-in-londo...
"Open train data" is a bit vague without mentioning where these trains might be, but I did find the London Tube schedule[1] in GTFS[2] format, as well as the bus schedule[3] also in GTFS format. Look for your city or country name followed by "open data" and you might find interesting datasets. In the UK the National Public Transport Data Repository (NPTDR) publishes a database of every public transport journey in Great Britain for a selected week in October each year[4] (only goes until 2011 though).
[1] Tube, scheduled trips: https://hash.ai/@tfl/tfl-gtfs
[2] GTFS is a CSV-based transit data format: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference
[3] Buses, scheduled trips: https://data.bus-data.dft.gov.uk/timetable/download/
[4] NPTDR database: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/d1f9e79f-d9db-44d0-b7b1-41c216fe...
Talking about trains and data about trains, I really dig this visualisation - https://minitokyo3d.com/