Public transit data can prove valuable to both cities and riders. For example, it can reveal high-congestion times, which provides insight for transit officials to, say, add more buses or subway cars to a certain route to make commutes more reliable.
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This mesmerizing map shows the world's cars, buses, and subways moving in real-time
Swiss-German IT firm GeOps and the University of Freiburg created a real-time transit map of the entire planet.
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