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🇮🇳 New Delhi

Open Transit Data Portal & Live Bus Feeds

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Delhi has published its buses as open data since 2018, vehicle positions refreshed every ten seconds. Reporting in 2026 found GPS units dropping offline and no bus stop showing live arrivals.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📰 Media
what does this mean?The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byDepartment of Transport, GNCTD, with IIIT-Delhi, DIMTS and DTC
Scale🏙️ City-wide

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Delhi's transport department has published its bus network as open data since November 2018 — GTFS timetables, stop coordinates and route maps, plus a GTFS-Realtime feed of vehicle positions refreshed every ten seconds; the government called it the first such portal in India. Built by IIIT-Delhi with DIMTS and DTC, it began as a beta covering roughly 1,700 cluster buses and now feeds the city's own One Delhi app, which tracks more than 7,300 DTC and cluster buses on over 500 routes. Real-time access requires a registered API key. Reporting in March 2026 found the data patchy on the ground: GPS units drop offline, route changes are not always reflected in the static files, and no bus stop shows live arrivals.

Live 📅 since 2018

📊 Impact

By 2022 more than 10,000 entities had downloaded the static data and over 50 organisations — including Google Maps, MapMyIndia and TCS Research — were consuming the live feed, as reported by Swarajya in March 2026.

🎓 Lesson

Publishing the feed is the cheap half. The portal has been open since 2018 and its own documentation warns that the timetable it ships 'is not accurate and is a rough estimate generated by assuming a constant speed of travel'; the live positions sit behind a private key; and at the stop itself there is nothing to read. Ten thousand downloads and fifty organisations consuming the feed have not put one arrival time on one pole — the March 2026 report follows a passenger who establishes which stop serves her route by asking strangers. Open data is a supply-side act. It buys a developer ecosystem, not a legible bus network, and the gap between the two is street furniture and maintenance, not a licence.

📡 Data & IoTOpen dataPublic transportSensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Open Transit Data Delhi — developer documentationThe operator's developer documentation: the GTFS static files it ships, the GTFS-Realtime VehiclePositions endpoint behind a private key, and its own warning that the timetable is a rough estimate. A standing documentation page with no publication date.
↗ Business Standard / PTI — Delhi government launches portal for spotting location of cluster buses (23 Nov 2018)Launch report: date, ~1,700 cluster buses in the beta, GPS every 10 seconds, GTFS, developed by IIIT-Delhi, and the government's claim that Delhi is India's first city to open bus transit data.
↗ ThePrint — Revamped version of 'One Delhi' app launched (2 Nov 2022)ThePrint, 2 November 2022: the consumer layer built on the feed - live tracking of more than 7,300 DTC and cluster buses, more than 500 searchable routes and over 2,200 EV chargers in the revamped One Delhi app.
↗ Swarajya — Delhi has the buses, the data, and the apps. Why can't you still find your bus? (10 Mar 2026)Currency check and counterweight: confirms the portal and app are running in 2026, carries the 10,000 static-data downloads / 50+ live-feed consumers figure for 2022, and documents the gaps — offline GPS units, stale static data after route changes, buses missing from the system, inaccurate ETAs, no real-time displays at stops.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2018. 3 of 4 sources carry a publication date, from 23 November 2018 to 10 March 2026.

When the sources were published

  1. Business Standard · pressBusiness Standard / PTI — Delhi government launches portal for spotting location of cluster buses (23 Nov 2018)
  2. ThePrint · pressThePrint — Revamped version of 'One Delhi' app launched (2 Nov 2022)
  3. Swarajya · pressSwarajya — Delhi has the buses, the data, and the apps. Why can't you still find your bus? (10 Mar 2026)

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Claim 1 clm-be0544b9d92b3686 quantitative
Delhi's transport department has published its bus network as open data since November 2018 — GTFS timetables, stop coordinates and route maps, plus a GTFS-Realtime feed of vehicle positions refreshed every ten seconds; the government called it the first such portal in India
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The November 2018 launch report gives the date, the GTFS format and the ten-second GPS refresh; Swarajya in 2026 restates it — 'In November 2018, Delhi became the first Indian city to publish its transit data in an open, machine-readable format' — and the portal itself lists the static GTFS files and the VehiclePositions endpoint.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Business Standard / PTI — Delhi government launches portal for spotting location of cluster buses (23 Nov 2018)
  2. Swarajya — Delhi has the buses, the data, and the apps. Why can't you still find your bus? (10 Mar 2026)
  3. Open Transit Data Delhi — developer documentation
Claim 2 clm-8f85e2f399c04b21 quantitative
Built by IIIT-Delhi with DIMTS and DTC, it began as a beta covering roughly 1,700 cluster buses
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The launch report names IIIT-Delhi as the developer and puts the beta at about 1,700 cluster buses.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Business Standard / PTI — Delhi government launches portal for spotting location of cluster buses (23 Nov 2018)
Claim 3 clm-75c4d8bd5881e256 quantitative
now feeds the city's own One Delhi app, which tracks more than 7,300 DTC and cluster buses on over 500 routes
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
ThePrint, 2 November 2022: the revamped One Delhi app 'comes with several new features including live tracking of over 7,300 DTC and cluster buses, searching more than 500 bus routes and locating over 2,200 Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers among others.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ThePrint — Revamped version of 'One Delhi' app launched (2 Nov 2022)
Claim 4 clm-5e95d0f1f5a2ed12 descriptive
Real-time access requires a registered API key
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The portal documentation: 'Authorised users can request for real-time data at /api/realtime/VehiclePositions.pb?key=YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Transit Data Delhi — developer documentation
Claim 5 clm-d77e8880352ad9eb quantitative
Reporting in March 2026 found the data patchy on the ground: GPS units drop offline, route changes are not always reflected in the static files, and no bus stop shows live arrivals
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Swarajya, 10 March 2026: 'Bus GPS units go offline. Routes change without the static data being updated. DEVI buses stopping informally generate no location signal a passenger at a notional stop can use.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Swarajya — Delhi has the buses, the data, and the apps. Why can't you still find your bus? (10 Mar 2026)
Claim 6 clm-3112bcceb0316905 quantitative
By 2022 more than 10,000 entities had downloaded the static data and over 50 organisations — including Google Maps, MapMyIndia and TCS Research — were consuming the live feed, as reported by Swarajya in March 2026
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
'By 2022, more than 10,000 entities had downloaded the static data, and over 50 organisations, including Google Maps, MapMyIndia, TCS Research, and researchers at Harvard, were consuming the live feed.'
Caveat
Downloads and feed consumers measure uptake by developers, not what a passenger can see at a stop.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Swarajya — Delhi has the buses, the data, and the apps. Why can't you still find your bus? (10 Mar 2026)
Claim 7 clm-67595971dba94c7d descriptive
its own documentation warns that the timetable it ships 'is not accurate and is a rough estimate generated by assuming a constant speed of travel'
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The portal's Warnings section, verbatim: 'The arrival and departure times of buses as mentioned in stop_times.txt is not accurate and is a rough estimate generated by assuming a constant speed of travel.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Transit Data Delhi — developer documentation
Claim 8 clm-2e457799bc28d3c6 quantitative
the March 2026 report follows a passenger who establishes which stop serves her route by asking strangers
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The report opens with a passenger who walks to one stand, waits ten minutes, learns from a fellow passenger that her buses do not stop there, walks to another, and confirms it 'with two or three strangers before crossing over'. At the right stop there is no shelter.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Swarajya — Delhi has the buses, the data, and the apps. Why can't you still find your bus? (10 Mar 2026)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Department of Transport, GNCTD, with IIIT-Delhi, DIMTS and DTC
Actor types
city-government, research, utility
Funding model
public
Funding description
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Cost
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Ownership
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Exit conditions
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4 source dossiers

Open Transit Data Delhi — developer documentation otd.delhi.gov.in · 3 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · otd.delhi.gov.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
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Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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Open the recorded source note

The operator's developer documentation: the GTFS static files it ships, the GTFS-Realtime VehiclePositions endpoint behind a private key, and its own warning that the timetable is a rough estimate. A standing documentation page with no publication date.

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Claims linked
Business Standard / PTI — Delhi government launches portal for spotting location of cluster buses (23 Nov 2018) business-standard.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

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Publisher
Name not classified · business-standard.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-11-23
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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Locator
Open the recorded source note

Launch report: date, ~1,700 cluster buses in the beta, GPS every 10 seconds, GTFS, developed by IIIT-Delhi, and the government's claim that Delhi is India's first city to open bus transit data.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
ThePrint — Revamped version of 'One Delhi' app launched (2 Nov 2022) theprint.in · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

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src-58d05461e79cbd45
Publisher
Name not classified · theprint.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-11-02
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note

ThePrint, 2 November 2022: the consumer layer built on the feed - live tracking of more than 7,300 DTC and cluster buses, more than 500 searchable routes and over 2,200 EV chargers in the revamped One Delhi app.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Swarajya — Delhi has the buses, the data, and the apps. Why can't you still find your bus? (10 Mar 2026) swarajyamag.com · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-3f7506e79415a1fe
Publisher
Name not classified · swarajyamag.com
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-03-10
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-27
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Currency check and counterweight: confirms the portal and app are running in 2026, carries the 10,000 static-data downloads / 50+ live-feed consumers figure for 2022, and documents the gaps — offline GPS units, stale static data after route changes, buses missing from the system, inaccurate ETAs, no real-time displays at stops.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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🇫🇮 HSL Open Transit Data & the Digitransit Platform · Helsinki Helsinki opened its transit data in 2010 and it grew into Digitransit; Delhi published India's first bus GTFS and live feeds in 2018. 🇰🇪 Digital Matatus Open Mapping Framework · Nairobi Nairobi put informal matatus into GTFS in 2012; Delhi published its formal bus network in 2018, yet no stop shows live arrivals. 🇮🇳 DTC Electric Bus Fleet & DEVi Feeder Service · New Delhi The feed's subject matter: DTC's electrifying fleet is part of the 7,300+ buses One Delhi tracks — when the GPS units are online.

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🌍 Hardware Stops, Data Doesn't📖 GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification)📖 Open data📖 Urban data platform (UDP)
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Open Transit Data Portal & Live Bus Feeds” — New Delhi, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/delhi-open-transit-data/ (last verified 2026-08-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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