TFI Live - Real Time Transport Planner App

For tracking I find bustimes.org the best

For pdf schedules Dublin Bus or Go Ahead websites.

Thank you - that explains a lot! I got the pdfs from the DB bus website. Ridiculous that official information provided to customers is inaccurate.

If a Sat/Sun services is advertised as duringthe current period, where do the operators and/or NTA actually expect customers to be getting their information? Bustimes looks like a great resource - thanks for the suggestions above - but it isn't official. Where are the official accurate timetables?? Is the TFI app the official source of supposedly accurate info?

Its worse than no tracking: BusTimes is showing a bunch of Cork buses rattling around Galway!

No that's not quite true.

The system is actually switched off on St. Patrick's Day and the day of the marathon because it is simply impossible to deliver predictive times, due to the rolling nature of the diversions and the unpredictability of the journey times as a result of the congestion and diversions.

You have to remember how the RTPI system works. Every individual departure has a stop-by-stop timetable drawn up by the schedulers, based on historic journey times. The system then takes the live GPS location of the buses, and then applies the stop-by-stop timetable appropriate to that departure to the live location of the bus to generate predictive times all along the rest of the route.

It just simply isn't possible to do that when you have massive one-off disruption, lengthy diversions and indeed rolling road closures at the direction of An Garda Síochána, such as on St. Patrick's Day or the day of the marathon, which when combined with the fluidity of the traffic congestion means that the service is just not predictable, thus meaning that you can't apply predictive schedules.

You'd have to come up with individual schedules for every departure for those specific days in any case, which inevitably would end up being cast aside, as the situation on the ground inevitably trumps any schedules that could be created.

While I agree that it is frustrating, it's one of those situations where the system just cannot function.

What's happened today is different - there seems to have been an IT problem at the NTA in terms of output of the vehicle locations and predictive to the apps and that's meant that there has been no live RTPI.

I'm also not sure why you think services are out of the ordinary today? It was a normal Sunday schedule today.

I don't think there is an early finish tonight? And the Nitelink and 24h services are due to operate.

Thankfully the tracking returned after a few hours today.

As for the RTPI being switched off on St Patrick's Day and for the marathon - I get that no meaningful scheduling can take place on such days, but surely there would be benefit in being able to live track the bus regardless, and draw your own conclusions as to whether or when it may arrive.

Apologies - my mistake re the early finish. I've corrected my earlier post.

I was thinking of previous years when it was 22:00 on New Years Eve - one gets conditioned to these things when it's been like that for almost all of my adult life. We have made some progress!

Well, at least that explains why the 220 has been so unreliable lately...

App showing "no live departures" and "this service does not run on specific date" for all Limerick city buses today.

That's obviously it true as it is Sunday service today. Comes across as either laziness or basic incompetence with a computer.

Buses finished up about 8-9pm on new year's eve as well without any public notice, complete disgrace

It could be a GPS glitch - they do happen. The buses are tracked using GPS.

Similarly southbound 14s are shown as tracking via Oak Road near Donnycarney Church rather than staying on Collins Avenue.

No I think you’re getting the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the OP was physically on the bus and looking at the app when it said that the bus was on the road towards the Clonskeagh gate.

I have also been on an S4 that physically was using the Newstead gate but the GPS put it as being on the road towards the Clonskeagh gate.

It happens to every S4, like the 14 at Oak Road - it must be a GPS glitch.

As to your other point, while I’d sympathise with the drivers, taking the Clonskeagh gate would be a big no-no as it would mean missing a stop on Clonskeagh Road.

The Clonskeagh gate is closed from Midnight to 07:00, which would cause problems in the early mornings,while Newstead is open 24/7.

They need to add another stop at the sports centre so that there is one for each direction. They implemented the route without really thinking of the logistics.

Any reason Dublin Bus GPS location has been down the last 2 days? Go Ahead's is working fine. Can't find any tweet on DB or TFI acknowledging it. So shoddy.

Ah, I thought it was an issue with bustimes.org, but guess not. No Dublin Bus buses are showing on the map, but Go-Aheads' and Bus Eireanns' are.

There always seems to be an outage like this very soon after a system update. And there was an update yesterday.

The live bus location is available in Google Maps now.

Dublin Bus tracking down most of the day again, Go Ahead working grand. Any reason one company can manage to keep theirs working whilst other company can't? very frustrating that it takes so long to sort it out too.

Dublin Bus live vehicle tracking not working all day. Vehicles are appearing on bustimes map, but not assigned to routes so fairly pointless. Go Ahead working fine as usual.

This seems to happen at least once a month, which is fairly shoddy.