The Animated Buses Of San Francisco

Somewhere inwards the multiverse in that place is i lonely universe where all of San Francisco's buses hap time.

Luckily nosotros forthwith accept a petty window into this perfect basis thank you lot to Danny Whalen's SFMTA Weekday Stop Times map. Danny's map animates the moving routes all of San Francisco's buses over 24 hours inwards only lx seconds.

If you lot desire to compare the ideal San Francisco transit universe to our non-ideal universe therefore you lot need to accept a await at the San Francisco Muni Tracker.


The San Francisco Muni Tracker is a real-time map of all the buses inwards San Francisco’s Muni transit system. The map includes 2 principal views. The 'Now' layer allows you lot to sentiment all the Muni buses moving inwards real-time on a map of San Francisco. Click on whatever i of the buses' map markers in addition to you lot tin lavatory sentiment how many miles the autobus has covered inwards the final 24 hours.

Switch to the 'Replay the final 24 hours' layer in addition to you lot tin lavatory sentiment an animation of all the buses' tracks over the final 24 hours. This is a bully visualization of how the buses motility some San Francisco. It highlights the reduction inwards autobus action at nighttime in addition to equally good the higher speeds when buses are on the freeways.

The map itself was created amongst Firebase's realtime transit data in addition to CartoDB’s Torque library. You tin lavatory read to a greater extent than most the map on the Firebase weblog - Build Realtime Firebase Maps amongst CartoDB.