How BusBusGo Works
A bus with no GPS hardware ends up on a live map because somebody on board put it there.
A passenger starts tracking
They board the bus, open BusBusGo, and tap “I'm on this bus”. Nothing is shared until they do.
Phone shares the position
Only while they ride, only within that route corridor, and only as often as movement warrants.
Everyone sees it move
Anyone waiting at a bus stand can watch it approach in the app or on this website. No login needed.
What about people who are not on the bus?
Anybody can file a one-tap sighting — “I see it”, “at this stop”, “just left”, “stuck in traffic”. Those are weighed alongside live GPS rather than shown separately: a fresh sighting confirmed by several people can be better evidence than a GPS fix from ten minutes ago.
How sure is the tracking data?
Every position carries how it was arrived at and how old it is. Evidence is weighted by freshness, how well it fits the route corridor, GPS accuracy, and how many independent people agree. A single report is never presented as certainty.
The essential rule: when there is no data, BusBusGo says so. It never fills the gap with a plausible-looking guess or artificial motion.
The Collective Catch
A route only works when riders share. On a route where nobody has, there is nothing to show — which is why the app invites you to be the first. One person on one bus is enough to make that route useful to hundreds of others waiting down the road.