Live Transit — Cities
One platform, many cities. Every city runs on its own transit agency's published data. Detroit is the reference build — live map and trip planner. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Denver + Aurora, Austin, Sacramento, San Diego and Columbus run live on the same platform — all eight cities from the expansion program are open.
Detroit LIVE
DDOT · SMART · QLINE — 83 routes — live map and trip planner
The reference instance: every DDOT bus live in 3D, SMART buses shown live under license (display only), QLINE streetcar, and a native trip planner that computes from the agencies' published timetables.
Philadelphia LIVE
SEPTA — 178 operating routes · 13,665 stops — live map and trip planner
Buses, trolleys, the subway and Regional Rail on one map of the five-county Pennsylvania region, from SEPTA's agency-direct feeds, with a native trip planner computing from SEPTA's published timetables.
Cincinnati LIVE
Metro (SORTA) — 53 routes · 3,513 stops — live map and trip planner
Buses and the Cincinnati Bell Connector streetcar on one map of the Cincinnati region, from SORTA's agency-direct feeds, with a native trip planner computing from SORTA's published timetables. Its feed is the strongest measured so far: every vehicle record carries a trip assignment.
Denver + Aurora LIVE
RTD — 130 routes · 8,161 stops — live map and trip planner
Buses and rail on one map of the Denver–Aurora region, from RTD's agency-direct feeds, with a native trip planner computing from RTD's published timetables. Denver and Aurora share one RTD feed, so they opened together.
Austin LIVE
CapMetro — 70 routes · 2,346 stops — live map and trip planner
Buses and the Metro Rail Red Line on one map of the Austin region, from CapMetro's published feeds through the State of Texas open data portal, with a native trip planner computing from CapMetro's published timetables.
Sacramento LIVE
SacRT — 64 routes · 2,822 stops — live map and trip planner
Buses and light rail on one map of the Sacramento region, from SacRT's agency-direct feeds, with a native trip planner computing from SacRT's published timetables.
San Diego LIVE
San Diego MTS — 104 routes · 4,359 stops — live map and trip planner
Buses and the Trolley on one map of the San Diego region, from MTS's agency-direct feeds, with a native trip planner computing from MTS's published timetables, ferry crossings included.
Columbus LIVE
COTA — 43 routes · 2,977 stops — route map and trip planner
Buses on one map of the Columbus region, from COTA's published timetables, with a native trip planner computing from the same schedules. COTA publishes no live vehicle feed, so Columbus shows the scheduled network exactly as published — no live layer is claimed for it.
How a city joins
Every city runs on its own agency's published data, under a license that permits the service to compute with it — not just display it. Fifty municipalities were reviewed; eight cleared that bar outright. A city is listed here only when its license permits the work and its live data has been measured, not taken from documentation.
Live Transit is published by AutomatedTechnologies. Riders never pay, in any city. There are no ads on any Live Transit map, ever.