Pantograph transit tracker now available in Vancouver, BC and Portland, OR

Thanks to some unexpected free time these last few months, Pantograph is now available for three agencies in two new regions-our neighbors at TransLink of greater Vancouver, TriMet of Portland, and Lane Transit District of Eugene.

Pantograph works in these new cities just as it does today in Puget Sound. Features include real-time mapping of vehicle positions, logging of coach/route assignments, detection of unusual coach/route assignments, tracking vehicle movements between bases, a missed trips dashboard-and so much more. TriMet is the first (and currently only) supported agency that also reports coach occupancy information, which is available in the app, though it appears at time of writing that they've disabled this temporarily.

To explore transit in these regions, simply go to the mobile-friendly website or download the iOS app. From there, you can pan over to the city on the map or manually select it from the header (web) or the Settings tab (iOS).

Since launching over a year ago here at STB, Pantograph has evolved significantly beyond its original capabilities: In August, I released the iOS app and new brand, followed shortly by the full rollout of assignment history, and the missed trip dashboard launched as transit cuts began in March. But the biggest changes yet came silently about a month ago-behind the scenes, it's basically an all-new app. The server-side tooling that powers the service has been completely rewritten, making everything more efficient, accurate, and-most importantly-extendable. Adding a new region or agency can be as simple as adding a few configuration files, provided they have a compatible GTFS feed and a real-time API to complement it.