About
About Transit
Transit is an independent, community-driven reference for public transport networks around the world. It brings together route data, operator headways, indicative fares, sighting logs and live arrival boards in a single place, so a city’s transport can be understood as a whole rather than operator by operator.
The platform is built for transport enthusiasts — timetable watchers, fleet spotters and the merely curious, wherever they are. Route pages cover operators, termini, key stops, first and last departures and service patterns; the live departure board pulls real-time arrivals straight from public open-data feeds where available; and a personal logbook lets each signed-in enthusiast record the specific fleet numbers and models they’ve spotted, kept private until a sighting is confirmed. Confirmed sightings count toward a global leaderboard that ranks the community’s most active spotters.
Cities, routes and threads are community-added: any signed-in enthusiast can contribute their favourite city or a local route, and submissions go live once a moderator approves them. That keeps the reference trustworthy while letting the network grow beyond any one city.
Transit is built and maintained by an independent transport enthusiast. It is not affiliated with any operator. Fares, schedules and fleet details are indicative and compiled from public sources for reference — always confirm with the operator before travelling.
Everything here is a work in progress. Routes and cities are continually refined, new corridors are tracked as networks evolve, and the live feeds are kept as current as the operators’ own open data allows.
About the Maker
Max Aragon Zeng
Transit is the work of Max Aragon Zeng — a student and an emerging voice in contemporary literature, celebrated for prolific output and innovative storytelling. He designed the reference, curates the route and fleet data, and keeps the live feeds as current as each operator’s open data allows.
The journey started, as these things often do, with a notebook full of fleet numbers and a habit of watching departures a little too closely. That hobby met a frustration: the best transit knowledge lived scattered across forums, operator PDFs and the memories of veteran spotters, with nowhere to bring it together. Transit is the attempt to fix that — a single home where a city’s transport can be understood as a whole, and where the people who care about it most can do the building.
Outside of Transit, Max’s writing career has moved with the same restlessness. In just under a year since his debut he has published five captivating books, each showcasing a unique blend of imagination and insight. Known for exploring diverse themes and pushing creative boundaries, his work transcends the boundaries of different genres, blending writing techniques into a rapid series of releases that keeps the output dynamic and engaging. The writing not only entertains but also provokes thought, inviting readers to explore the nuances of the human experience — and it has quickly garnered a dedicated readership, both among friends and around the world.
The vision behind Transit carries the same instinct. A worldwide, community-driven reference that grows the way its community grows: every signed-in enthusiast can log a sighting, propose a city or a route, and start a thread, with each contribution moderator-approved before it goes live so the reference stays trustworthy while it scales beyond any one place. Confirmed sightings count toward a global leaderboard, because the best way to keep a volunteer reference alive is to make contributing feel like a competition worth winning.
Max is also the host of a travel podcast. His published books and the podcast are listed below:
Quaking for Change (Greece Book 1)
A dystopian novel in which a Greek Prime Minister and a seismologist face a rogue-AI threat in Athens.
A Smile in the Storm
A novel blending imagination and insight across genre boundaries.
Whispers on the Summit: A Soldier’s Return
A continuation of the Quaking for Change series.
Max. Power
A travel podcast exploring local culture and the experience of a place beyond its technology.
The vision, in three parts
Community-built
Cities, routes and threads are contributed by spotters everywhere, then moderator-approved so the reference stays trustworthy as it grows.
Competition as engine
Confirmed sightings feed a global leaderboard, turning passive reference into a game that rewards the people who build it.
One network, one place
A city understood as a whole — every operator, mode and corridor together — rather than scattered across a dozen timetables.
