Real Time BART Arrivals Visualization

2008 October 12

For my next project at Berkeley, I cre­ated a real time visu­al­iza­tion of esti­mated train arrival times within the BART sys­tem. So next time you need to head over to the East Bay, just check the visu­al­iza­tion and you can see how far away your train is from the station.

More detail on the project and process behind it are doc­u­mented here. Thanks to BART for mak­ing their arrivals data available!

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  1. Wow, that is a really cool idea. I was a lit­tle intim­i­dated by all the squares at first but after I under­stood what was hap­pen­ing things became much clearer. If the trains are at most points in time not on the track (since they travel on angle), you could think about break­ing from the map and dis­play the infor­ma­tion geometrically?

    Comment by jason — 2008 October 14 @ 8:35 am

  2. Scott, that is amaz­ing. the thing that strikes me the most is how much this con­nects me to what is really hap­pen­ing in the city while I’m here, 3,000 miles away. it’s like I’m right there, or I can imag­ine I am there. very awesome.

    Comment by elaine — 2008 October 17 @ 1:49 pm

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