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I don't think anyone would have assumed that you can build such a system in a weekend.

Half of your points assume that current transportation companies don't have any digital data about bus stops and reroutes.

Anyway I haven't been in a bus that doesn't have such a system for at least for a few years (in western Europe and China).



> Half of your points assume that current transportation companies don't have any digital data about bus stops and reroutes.

The question is what is more work: Using the existing data that is stored in some obscure format for which you first have to write an importer/converter or just recreating the data. Add the fact that the existing data might need some cleanup/additions (e.g. times on timetable are only stored with minute precision and you want second precision for more accuracy).




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