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<p>Not every public transport agency publishes real-time delay information, and some do not even have it. Some of the proprietary transit apps have used user-submitted data to bridge this gap for some time now.</p> <p>This talk explores how we can do the same in open-source apps, based on <a href="https://transitous.org/">Transitous</a>. It covers the steps from collecting the vehicle positions from people's phones in an ethical way, to deriving the delay and to integrating the results with existing routing services and apps.</p> <p>In addition to allowing for the independent collection of real-time information, the components written for this project (<a href="https://codeberg.org/jbb/transitous-gps-collector/">gps-collector</a> and <a href="https://codeberg.org/jbb/gtfs-delay-tracker">gtfs-delay-tracker</a>) could potentially be useful for community buses, heritage railways and smaller public transport agencies with limited budgets.</p>