Public Transport Busradar - Bus Live Location data
Live bus position data for the city of Münster, published by Stadtwerke Münster. The interface provides real-time location data for all buses operating in the city area, originally released as a Websocket-based API during MÜNSTERHACK 2019 and later extended with a standardized GTFS Realtime Feed. Data includes bus line numbers, route history, and delay information in seconds; a 2024 update added live vehicle occupancy data for buses equipped with suitable sensors. The interface is free and open to use, though it remains under active development, may experience occasional failures, and comes with no guarantee of continuous functionality. Technical documentation and an interactive demo application are available online.On this page you will find information about the data interface of Stadtwerke Münster, via which the position data of all buses in the city area can be queried live. This interface is open and available free of charge. Please note that this interface is in active development and that there may be failures. A functional guarantee cannot be assumed. As part of MÜNSTERHACK 2019, this API interface based on Websockets was published for the first time. In the meantime, Stadtwerke Münster have further developed the interface and also offer an API in the standardized format "GTFS Realtime Feed". On the following links you will find a technical documentation of all endpoints and an interactive example application where you can see exactly where which bus is currently and which buses are delayed by how many seconds. How the interactive application works: The bus positions update automatically after a few seconds. The location markers show the number of the respective bus line. If you click on a single bus in the map, the corresponding line history is displayed after a little delay. The color indicates how many seconds delay the bus has. Update 2024: In addition to the Websocket API for bus positions, Stadtwerke Münster now also offers a GTFS Realtime Feed. In addition, live information on vehicle utilization has been added, i.e. for buses with corresponding sensors, it is displayed how full the bus is. More information can be found below in the link to the documentation. .
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A CKAN-hosted dataset whose resources are file downloads rather than a queryable DataStore, so no column schema could be read automatically. The dataset page lists the downloadable distributions.
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Using the API
Query examples
curl -s 'https://opendata.stadt-muenster.de/api/3/action/package_show?id=%C3%B6pnv-busradar-bus-live-positionsdaten' -H 'Accept: application/json'Full CKAN dataset record: resources, licence, organization, freshness.