"Real-time" train traffic in the Netherlands

For fun I've created a few scripts to reconstruct "real-time" train traffic in the Netherlands using NS public API.

For video and more information see

Remaking a video

Just run main.py (it takes a long time and memory usage builds up). It requires a few things:

• python3
• python3-matplotlib
• python3-xmltodict
• python3-mpltoolkits.basemap

It loads data from trains.json and stations.xml. Running this script produces lots of png files. ffmpeg can be used to make a video out of them:

ffmpeg -framerate 10 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p trains.mp4

Collecting raw data from NS

collect_data.sh script saves current departure information for all stations in the Netherlands. After that make_trains.sh reconstructs train routes and replaces trains.json. To remake pngs run main.py