Wednesday, March 14, 2012

SimCity Lausanne Transit on Google Maps


Vasile Cotovanu has created a new Google Map application, Lausanne Transit Network Simulator, using his popular and open-sourced transit network simulator. And I think it is the most impressive yet!

Vasile's latest simulation shows in real-time the public transit network of Lausanne in Switzerland. The simulator animates the town's buses in real-time. What makes this simulation even more impressive is the Google Maps aerial (Bird's Eye) imagery available in Lausanne.

The simulation maps the Lausanne public transit network and time-table, which involves more than 150km of travel and more than 300 stations, with 5,000 vehicles a day making almost 100,000 stops.

Using Vasile's vehicle-simulator you can create your own real-time public transit network simulator for any town or city with the help of the code, available from GitHub. To create your own simulated network you just need to plot your track / road network and the vehicle timetables in JSON format.

The network simulator can also be seen in action on:

3 comments:

  1. that good tool .. had never heard of anything like it .... very interesting article ... is amazing how technology makes us more and more life ... until you could spy on people with this later .... this great ...
    congratulations ..
    regards

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  2. WOW! The way you worded it made me think of the PC game at first and assumed somebody finally made something from that game series.

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