EGO Cep'te Real-Time Bus Tracking
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Ankara has tracked its buses in real time since 2011, privately operated ones included. The app is good and still maintained; a public developer feed for the same data could not be found.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 6 more in Ankara · 🚌 Public transport guide · 🚲 Mobility projects
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.
🎓 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.
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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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