There has been a long tradition of using transit network timetables to practice real-time transit map simulations. Vasile Coțovanu's Swiss Railways Network was in all likelihood the real outset nationwide transit map which faux prepare movements inwards real-time based on the network timetable.
Recently a novel approach to mapping GTFS transit timetables has buy the farm popular. This novel approach uses CartoDB's Torque library to supply a sped-up animated visualization of a tranist network. El Trafico de Trenes is a skillful event of this novel trend.
Microsiervos has used Torque to visualize 24 hours of traffic on the Castilian rails network inwards simply over ane minute. Microsiervos has released 2 dissimilar maps. One shows an animated visualization of 24 hours of Spain's long distance trains. The other animates 24 hours of Spain's freight trains.
You tin mail away likewise sentiment a simulation of ane twenty-four hours of San Francisco's SFMTA jitney network visualized on a map using CartoDB's Torque library. Danny Whalen's SFMTA Weekday Stop Times map animates all of San Francisco's buses over 24 hours inwards simply lx seconds.
If y'all desire to practice your ain visualizations of a transit network in addition to thence y'all mightiness desire to accept a await at Vasile's Transit Map library. Vasile has likewise released the code for a GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) plug-in equally well. GTFS-viz converts a laid upwardly of GTFS files into a SQLite database in addition to the GeoJSONs needed past times his Transit Map library.
If y'all desire to practice a sped-up version of a city's transit network in addition to thence y'all should reckon using the city's GTFS feed alongside CartoDB's Torque library.
