EGO Cep'te Real-Time Bus Tracking

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EGO published the first Android version of EGO Cep'te on 9 November 2011, iPhone in February 2012, and still ships updates — most recently 13 June 2026. A rider types a five-digit stop number and sees which services are approaching that stop and when, plotted on a map. The coverage is the notable part: the feed carries not only EGO's own buses but the privately operated ÖHO and ÖTA services that run much of Ankara's network, so the tracking layer follows the passenger rather than the operator. The 2024 validator replacement added on-board visual and audio next-stop announcements and moved complaints intake into the same app. No public GTFS or developer feed for Ankara could be found.

Live 📅 since 2011

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run byEGO Genel Müdürlüğü

Scale🏙️ City-wide

🎓 Lesson

A transit authority can instrument a network it does not own — Ankara's private bus and minibus operators appear in the same live feed as the municipal fleet, which is the harder integration and the one riders actually notice. Publishing that feed to developers is a separate decision, and Ankara has not visibly taken it: the contrast with Istanbul's İETT, whose open GTFS feeds are in the atlas, is a policy difference rather than a technical one.

🚲 Mobility Public transport Sensors & IoT

Sources

↗ EGO Genel Müdürlüğü (operator) — EGO Cep'te application pageRelease and maintenance dates straight from the operator: Android "İlk Yayınlanma Tarihi: 09/11/2011", iPhone 09/02/2012, iPad 20/03/2012, Huawei 25/04/2020; "Son Güncelleme Tarihi: 13/06/2026". Lists current features including Nasıl Giderim journey planning, Keşfet and Acil Sağlık. Confirms the app is live, not abandoned.

↗ Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — EGO Cepte"EGO Otobüsleri, Özel Halk Otobüsleri (ÖHO) ve Özel Toplu Taşıma Araçlarının (ÖTA) takibine imkan veren" — establishes that private operators are inside the same real-time feed, and the five-digit stop-number lookup ("Otobüs Nerede?").

↗ EGO Genel Müdürlüğü (operator) — validator replacement, 17 May 2024On-board information screens and announcements, and the move of complaints and requests into EGO Cep'te: "Şikâyet ve talepleri de artık EGO Cepte üzerinden alarak...".

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🇮🇳 Open Transit Data Portal & Live Bus Feeds · New Delhi Opposite trade-offs: Delhi published an open GTFS feed that went stale, Ankara ships a maintained app and no developer feed at all. 🇮🇳 BMTC Bus Tracking and Open Transit Data · Bengaluru Both track buses in real time for riders; only Bengaluru opened the data, and developers still scrape the app anyway. 🇫🇮 HSL Open Transit Data & the Digitransit Platform · Helsinki The counter-case: an operator that opened its journey planner in 2010 and watched other cities adopt the platform.

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🚦 Asphalt or algorithms 🚌 Public transport guide 🏙️ Ankara city profile 🚲 Mobility projects 📖 Adaptive traffic signals 📖 Automated speed enforcement (speed cameras)📖 Bus rapid transit (BRT)

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “EGO Cep'te Real-Time Bus Tracking” — Ankara, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ankara-ego-cepte/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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