Design and generator for transit timetables

Introducing both a universal design and an automatic generator of layouts for public transport timetables.

Files are automatically generated from the raw data, ready to be passed to the printers and placed at the stops:

The flexible design system supports journey-by-journey, hourly and interval timetable displays. They can be combined and annotated. All types of timetables are based on a common grid and fit each other like lego bricks. The timetables of the individual routes make up a common poster for a stop.

Branding

Despite the design rigor, it is easy to style the timetable to match the brand of a particular transit system or operator:

Mass production

The timetable differs not just from route to route, but rather from stop to stop, as even one journey runs through stops at different times:

Therefore, each stop in a city should have its own timetable that differs from the adjacent one, if only by a minute. It is a real torture for a human being to manually layout thousands of tables, double-checking hundreds of thousands of numbers.

The robot does this instantly and accurately:

Moreover, you can ask it to fit the desired dimensions, lay out the timetables horizontally, vertically, or in multiple columns, depending on how much space there is in what type of stop:

How it works

The program takes the source timetable data for each of the routes and the list of stops, then instantly generates the necessary layouts. Not only design styles are configurable, but also rules like from at which journey frequency it is sufficient to display only intervals. If necessary, a human edits the heading and footnotes.

We invite transit authorities as well as private carriers to cooperate.