For Austria you can see them all here: https://anachb.vor.at/ ("Kartenoptionen" -> "Livemap" -> "Alle einblenden"). Even covers buses, subways, trams and local trains as well as public transport ships.
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Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
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Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#102this map seems only show a portion of all running passenger trains ? I just drove by a train station, one train passed by, not on this map, haha
Was it an in-service passenger train? A freight train or out-of-service passenger train wouldn't show up. Sadly, there's very little data available for most trains on US rails. For example, there's no way (AFAIK) to see what freight trains are active on the network. It's a little frustrating in comparison with how rich our air traffic sources are. If anyone on HN knows of any richer sources for train network data, pl…
yes, it is a passenger train. which started operation within one year, that might be why.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
>If we're looking for some low hanging fruit around how to possibly lower CO2 emissions, well folks here it is. I'm not really sure how you can call it "low hanging fruit" when its overall contribution to global emissions is only 2%, and how hard it is to build HSR projects in the US. [1] https://www.iea.org/energy-system/transport/aviation >In 2022 aviation accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions
It's low hanging fruit in that everything involved is well understood with very seasoned technology and a deep amount of suppliers and engineering knowledge. As I said, we were doing this stuff in the 19th century, and have kept doing it (in some countries, just not NA). This sort of solution doesn't require any sort of technological breakthroughs, or technologies that do not exist. Trying to solve climate change bas…
>It's low hanging fruit in that everything involved is well understood with very seasoned technology and a deep amount of suppliers and engineering knowledge.
>This sort of solution doesn't require any sort of technological breakthroughs, or technologies that do not exist.
You can say the same for solar panels and/or batteries? After all, they exist right now and can be mass produced. Moreover the electricity grid actually accounts for a significant chunk of global emissions, unlike aviation. The only thing really stopping them is cost, but then that's basically the same issue that HSR has, which is cost/delays/political issues.
>As I said, we were doing this stuff in the 19th century, and have kept doing it (in some countries, just not NA).
"[trains] in the 19th century" aren't a serious competitor to airplanes in the same way that ocean liners aren't a serious competitor to airplanes.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
it already has something much more sophisticated - a high-speed air network think your train is efficient? a plane can fly in a straight line between any two points in the US! beat that! ever see a train cross one of the great lakes? no challenge for a plane! rerouting a rail line can cost billions...but only a tiny bit of fuel to reroute a plane...not to mention I can go coast to coast in five hours on a plane but t…
in the northeast I still prefer to take acela over being dehumanized by the TSA
TSA can screen people the same for rail, they just tend not to. Ideally we’d go back to pre-9/11 screening for everything.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#105Wow, I don't know why I thought there would be... Way, way more trains active at a given time. I suppose I overestimated passenger rail popularity in this country.. I knew it wasn't relatively huge, but there's several hundred miles in some cases between trains.
US population can be approximated as relatively dense populations in California, the Northeast, a central portion of Texas, and parts of the Midwest, with rural Europe-ish levels of density (with some greater pockets of density nestled within) in the rest of the country ~east of the Mississippi (and a lesser degree in the Pacific Northwest), and truly empty regions basically everywhere else.
In terms of where there should be lots of trains that there isn't, it's largely the Midwest outside of Chicago, Texas Triangle, and the Southeast, all of which could probably support hourly intercity HSR trains if they were competently built (although especially in the Southeast, this is going to be restricted basically to a single corridor).
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#106Super cool! I love this. Makes me yearn for a day when this map is way more full of activity.
Just a little feedback: the color for Amtrak and for Chicago's Metra trains are so similar it's hard to see at a glance where the Amtrak runs are amongst the many Metras that are out at a given time. Would be awesome to differentiate those marker colors a bit more.
Very cool! Didn't know this was even technically possible with the available data feeds. Great work!
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#107Wow, I don't know why I thought there would be... Way, way more trains active at a given time. I suppose I overestimated passenger rail popularity in this country.. I knew it wasn't relatively huge, but there's several hundred miles in some cases between trains.
The site is incomplete, and there are way, way more trains active at a given time. For instance the Tri-Rail and Brightline (high-speed rail) in Florida each have 5-6 trains running simultaneously. Brightline is notable as the US's first credible foray into high-speed rail. Similarly most major cities in the US have either light rail, rapid transit, or both, which is maybe not included in this map. "Passenger rail" m…
Not totally sure on this, just making an informed guess:
I think "passenger rail" implies passenger trains running on the "full/main" railroad lines that run all over the US. Something like light rail or local transit typically have their own discrete lines, in my experience.
Again, could be wrong, that's just how I interpret it.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#108Busses would be soo much better if there was real time location of busses and trains that you could view on a map. Probably the lowest hanging fruit to pick for public transport improvement.
The MTA has this: https://bustime.mta.info/#B63
The CTA has this: https://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/wireless/html/eta.jsp?...
Those are the only two cities I've lived in, but the ability to track buses seems widespread to me.
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
NJ Transit’s data operation is sub-par. The developers of the “Transit” app have been sparring with them to get live bus data restored https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/transportation/2023/1...
The NJ Transit website/app looks ramshackle compared to the MTA.
The MTA also has a really neat railroad tracking tool: https://radar.mta.info/
This feels like an internal app that somehow got a public URL. It has neat features like being able to make the same departure board they have in their stations, and it has a departure view that shows how many people are on the train: https://radar.mta.info/countdown/GCT
Re: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
#110Looking at the speed of the trains is a bit depressing. USA had so much potential to built the best high-speed railway network...
HSR only makes economic sense in the northeast. Everywhere else is too spread out for rail to compete with air travel. The most popular air route in the western US (SF-LA) isn’t worth making high speed rail between. The project is expected to cost over $30 billion. Assuming 100% of air passengers use rail (4 million per year), at $150 per ticket it would take 50 years to break even… and that assumes zero maintenance costs. Also it would be slower than taking a plane.