Tracking & Mapping Private Cars in Real-Time
OpenTrafficMap is a real-time animated map showing the movements of cars, trams and buses in Graz, Switzerland. It also shows the current status of all the city's smart traffic lights - displaying whether signals are red or green. What is OpenTrafficMap? Modern vehicles and road infrastructure increasingly use C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems), a wireless standard designed to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. Cars, buses, trams and traffic lights can broadcast messages containing data such as: vehicle position speed and direction braking or acceleration status traffic signal phases intersection lane geometry roadworks and hazard alerts OpenTrafficMap is an open-source platform that listens to these broadcasts and turns them into a public live animated map. Live Trams, Buses and Traffic Lights Because Graz’s trams and buses broadcast their positions, OpenTrafficMap can show live tram and bus locations, route numbers and destinations, and the current spee...
