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Websites and apps that have a bus tracker that shows the reg number or fleet number of the vehicles.

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Sprinter150

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That's what it looks like, but how about this one? Unless it's in km/h rather than mph (even so 80kph would be higher than you might expect for a service bus)...
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Man of Kent

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That's what it looks like, but how about this one? Unless it's in km/h rather than mph (even so 80kph would be higher than you might expect for a service bus)...
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The example shown includes the dead run from the depot in Dover along the mostly-dual carriageway A2 to the Wincheap park and ride site in Canterbury, so speeds of 50mph are entirely to be what is expected. As are the dizzy heights of 10kph (so 6.5mph) for the crawl into the middle of Canterbury.
 

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I really need a National Express West Midlands bus tracker by now! because there's some on bustimes.org
 
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JamesC357

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First Essex is only showing the buses currently in service, no data for any that haven’t been used today
 

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There seems to be an odd phenomenon on Bus Times at the moment. I've seen that over the past few days, many vehicles in the Arriva Midlands fleet seem to have been duplicated on the tracker (one appears as the normal vehicle and the other always in white livery, always without the vehicle registration). https://bustimes.org/operators/arriva-midlands-north/vehicles This means that when you are looking at the map the same bus appears twice (sometimes in slightly different positions, as one has been updated more recently). I suppose you could argue that it provides more up-to-date location, but I wondered if anyone knew why this is occurring (be it changing of ticket machines or something)?

Note: I do not know if it is just this operator that is affected or more of a widespread problem. On a quick glance, I can't find anyone else with the same problem, but that doesn't mean there isn't another operator of course.

Here is an example around Cannock: 1586972062787.png
 

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Another odd anomoly is buses popping up under the wrong operator. Some Glasgow Citybus buses are (or were) showing up on the McGills fleet list. Two unrelated companies. Also some Diamond WM buses were showing up under the Hallmark fleetlist despite never being in service at Hallmark.

I have tried reporting the duplicated for Arriva Midlands but I think it's all pending. Duplicates normally happen when updates are made to the tracking (note how some Oswestry routes now show).
 

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I have tried reporting the duplicated for Arriva Midlands but I think it's all pending. Duplicates normally happen when updates are made to the tracking (note how some Oswestry routes now show).

Thanks - that clears things up a bit. Based on this, I'm sure that Bus Times will get round to removing the duplicates soon.
 

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Another odd anomoly is buses popping up under the wrong operator. Some Glasgow Citybus buses are (or were) showing up on the McGills fleet list. Two unrelated companies. Also some Diamond WM buses were showing up under the Hallmark fleetlist despite never being in service at Hallmark.

I have tried reporting the duplicated for Arriva Midlands but I think it's all pending. Duplicates normally happen when updates are made to the tracking (note how some Oswestry routes now show).
In the past some McGill's buses have appeared on the First Glasgow listing. It was limited to where both operators appeared on the same route at different times of the day such as the 208. Not sure if that is what is happening with the McGill's and Citybus listing.
 

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Ever since the emergency Covid timetables came into effect, First Essex has only been tracking one route in the entire county for some reason.
For reference, a Sunday level service is in use with extras at peak times, so most services are still running
 

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First West of England were on bustimes.org but seems to have turned off their tracking at present as stops were still showing normal timetable rti but now the la responsible for the rti has switched the system off and is displaying refer to timetables. Of course the displayed timetables are the normal ones. It's not rocket science to display emergency timetable in operation telephone ... or refer to weebsite...
 
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First West of England were on bustimes.org but seems to have turned off their tracking at present as stops were still showing normal timetable rti but now the la responsible for the rti has switched the system off and is displaying refer to timetables. Of course the displayed timetables are the normal ones. It's not rocket science to display emergency timetable in operation telephone ... or refer to weebsite...
The whole point of all the money that was spent on rti is for situations like this where the timetable changes quicker than roadside displays can be changed. However either the design is poor (which is the most likely reason as most systems dont cope with surprises like Christmas) or the agencies involved have decided not to bother, despite how important public transport provision is being viewed as being.
 

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Couple of things, i which the tracker could have a filter so you can only view some companies, & not every company & i wish there was a filter to clear the bus stops when you scroll in for a closer look, as i find half of the time when i scroll up close, i'm clicking the bus stop instead of the vehicle i want to track.
 

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Couple of things, i which the tracker could have a filter so you can only view some companies, & not every company & i wish there was a filter to clear the bus stops when you scroll in for a closer look, as i find half of the time when i scroll up close, i'm clicking the bus stop instead of the vehicle i want to track.
Email that through to them. The Dev seems to be quite good at implementing suggestions.
 

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I have noticed when looking at the various trackers, that some fleets, that I don't normally associate with fleet numbers seem to have one allocated on the the tracker system

Is this an internal function, as I have not seen any evidence of vehicles carrying fleet numbers.
 

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Brighton & Hove's map now shows loadings per bus; Southern Vectis & Reading use the same website template and also offer a bus tracker and clearly intend to also show loading data soon (Current capacity = "unknown"). So far as I can tell, all 3 are currently showing just the registration, not the fleet number.
 

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First Yorkshire is a bit of a phenomenon.

First SY / WY never worked. However,

First West Yorkshire Limited is listed doesn't work, nor does First Leeds, First Halifax, First Bradford or First South Yorkshire (it's listed but only has a few buses listed from Bolton).

However, First Halifax, Calder Valley & Huddersfield and First York do work which is amazing. Esp. York as I love to get over there in summer. You know, days like today minus a pandemic.
 

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First Yorkshire is a bit of a phenomenon.

First SY / WY never worked. However,

First West Yorkshire Limited is listed doesn't work, nor does First Leeds, First Halifax, First Bradford or First South Yorkshire (it's listed but only has a few buses listed from Bolton).

However, First Halifax, Calder Valley & Huddersfield and First York do work which is amazing. Esp. York as I love to get over there in summer. You know, days like today minus a pandemic.
First Huddersfield and First York seem to show up and disappear quite often so they're not very reliable on the page.
 

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Couple of things, i which the tracker could have a filter so you can only view some companies, & not every company & i wish there was a filter to clear the bus stops when you scroll in for a closer look, as i find half of the time when i scroll up close, i'm clicking the bus stop instead of the vehicle i want to track.

There is now a "Show Stops" layer, so you can clear them when you zoom in
 
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