Hello everyone!
I am not sure what your experience with mobiliteit.lu is, but I find the app and website cumbersome and slow to use! Additionally, most of the time I know where to take which line, and only want to see the departures in real time so I know when to leave the house. Thus, we decided to build our own app doing exactly this: depart.lu
We are making use of the OpenData API for realtime departures in transportation, so the data is also updated in case of delays etc.
We did not want to build a competitor to mobilteit, so the focus here is not travel planning. It is more the kind of commuter or frequent rider who already knows his lines, or people taking the tram (there is not much to plan here after all 😀 ) and just want to see when the next one is arriving.
You can search for stations with the (very fast) search, add favorites and e.g. get a similar view to the departure boards that are acutally on the stations, and also check for arrival times at any point of the line you selected.
The app is free and available for iOS, macOS and Android, so let me know what you think! The webapp also allows for quick searches but does not have the favorites and map view 🙂
Also, the app is available in 🇱🇺🇵🇹🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪 we did our best with the translations but feel free to let us know if there are any errors 😀
We build an app for real-time bus, train and tram departures
byu/HotTotem inLuxembourg
Posted by HotTotem
2 Comments
That is actually useful – thank you!
Nice UI on iOS and convenient to see the bus route when you select a line too.
Interesting, presumably it’s the same underlying data as mobiliteit though?
My use case is that my bus is always delayed by evening traffic by ~5 mins. Mobiliteit doesn’t update this and also insists it’s a 2 mins walk to cross the road. That usually means mobiliteit already hides my bus. So it would be nice if your app could also show buses that have theoretically left already…