GPS data of trains

[Juhani Pirttilahti]

Hello all,

It has occurred to me that in the UK most trains are already equipped with onboard GPS positioning equipment. Can anyone tell what's the current situation with this data, is it becoming available anytime soon?

Here in Finland, the Finnish Transport Agency is going to publish real time GPS position data of all trains (all including freight!) in next month. They were having some privacy issues at first as the GPS equipment is portable (drivers use tablet computers), but then they sorted out that issue by filtering the positions by track geometry.

And what I've heard on, Norway is going to follow suit.

Juhani

[Peter Hicks (Poggs)]

Hi Juhani

Lots of trains have GPS equipment, but not all of them have the capability to transmit it back for publication.

There are various industry projects ongoing to provide a gateway for GPS data from trains, and one to align those GPS reports with other train identifiers.

A colleague of mine mentioned today that he thinks it’ll be available at the end of 2018.

Peter

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[Rail Ale Fan]

Would be nice!

London Midland's on-train WiFi shows a moving map of the train on the browser welcome / login page.

In the mean time this is my experiment in real world position reckoning from Darwin timing data...

https://live-departures.info/rail/d.vgps/

( non geeky version with bigger map at https://live-departures.info/rail/vgps/ )

Nothing online yet but i'm having a play around with the HTML5 Geolocation API to take actual GPS reports from a
user running vgps who is on the train being viewed to see how this can be correlated with Train Describer CA
messages to improve accuracy but it's a low priority side project at the moment especially if some form of open
data live GPS is on the horizon...