GPS Bus-tracking on the cheap

Step 6 Future steps

And there you have it, a bus-tracker with arrival prediction for under $300/bus/year.  Since you made it this far, here's the link to my trackers (they're not currently attached to any buses but if you get lucky you might see it being tested..you'd have to be absurdly lucky, actually).

Some more things to think about, somewhat in order:

development of physical displays at bus stops
integration of phones into electrical system of vehicle
better exception handling in script
prettier output; smartphone compatible pages
evaluation of opengts (as compared to IM)
increased CGI script security
autonomous route detection
autonomous route timing and adjustments
migration of data storage to sqlite

Thanks to savage22 for this last photo.  And to my housemates, thanks for carrying my phones around..

Have some more ideas about what this could do?  Leave a comment or send me an email -- matt (dot) ball (dot) 2 at gmail.  Happy tracking.