TFHell
Buses in London are tracked by radio and GPS, yet Londonders are seeing no benefit.
Some bus stops have live departure boards, but it's not very useful when you're at home or with friends and you want to know when the bus will be arriving.
TFHell is a proof-of-concept application and API designed to make life easier for bus users.
By taking data from TFL's already-established bus tracking system, the application will find a bus stop and display how long each bus will take to arrive at that stop. It's that simple.
The API:
The entire back-end system has been written, so an application can be built for any platform to make use of this.
The App:
There is currently a web-based version of the application, built in HTML, CSS and PHP. It was designed for the iPhone, but will work on most other web-capable phones. There are unlimited possibilities in terms of how it can be implemented as an application.
Proof-of-concept:
The system has been built and works. However, it uses randomly generated data for the bus times because TFL do not provide publicly available bus time information. Several other local authorities in England do provide this data and TFL do have the data, it's only a matter of releasing it.
Availability:
If the data were to be provided by TFL, it would take changing a single line of code in the API to make it fully functional and available for public use.
http://go.gridfusions.com/tfhell