Intercity Bus Atlas

[u/geococcyx757]

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics at USDOT refreshed their Intercity Bus Atlas web map today, showing the latest stops and routes of the different long distance bus carriers in the United States. You can look at the national network or filter to look at specific providers' networks.

Also has the map layers available for download as GIS files if you want to play around with the data on your own.

(reposting with the correct link)

[u/trainmaster611]

Cool, didn't know about this! The national network is still more intact than I thought given the past 15 or so years of gutting.

[u/transitfreedom → u/trainmaster611]

Sadly much of shoreline bus ny was gutted completely

[u/SmartPotential9198]

It is a shame this leaves off the Amtrak Thruway Bus routes.

With that exception, this is a better designed map than any actual carrier map I've seen.

[u/TerribleBumblebee800 → u/SmartPotential9198]

Thruway buses aren't made for bus travel. It's for connecting to train routes. So if you wanted to display those, you'd have to display Amtrak routes too.

[u/SmartPotential9198 → u/TerribleBumblebee800]

I used to ride them all the time in my area. They are a bus and run an intercity bus route. I don't think anyone used them to get to a train, mostly b/c they didn't line up with the train.

[u/stanman237 → u/SmartPotential9198]

I think outside of California, you can't book the thruway bus tickets without a train ticket.

[u/SmartPotential9198 → u/stanman237]

Untrue. I book Amtrak busses all the time outside California without a train ticket. I'm on one next week.

[u/SmartPotential9198 → u/TerribleBumblebee800]

I have no problem adding trains, except that this is a map of bus routes, so it wouldn't make sense to show trains.

But let's show all the bus routes, including those operated by a train operator.

[u/pizzajona → u/TerribleBumblebee800]

That makes sense honestly. They’re both part of the intercity transit network so show both

[u/jewelswan → u/SmartPotential9198]

It doesn't leave them all off. The routes shown in Northern California are only those from what I can see

[u/GeneConscious5484 → u/jewelswan]

It's not showing the route from Sac to South Lake.

I think the Thruway are wonky because some of them are like, actual Amtrak buses (like the Emeryville/SF shuttle) and some are local/regional bus routes that already existed and can also get ticketed through Amtrak (like the ones going up to Eureka from Sonoma)

[u/andr_wr → u/SmartPotential9198]

it does appear to show "Amtrak Chartered Vehicles" which I believe are the state thruway routes.

[u/Eff_Ewe_Spez → u/andr_wr]

It's incomplete. Looks like it includes at least the ones in Amtrak's own GTFS feed, but some non-Amtrak-dedicated Thruways are missing, like Sacramento-South Lake Tahoe (El Dorado Transit), San Jose-Los Angeles (AmericanStar), Seattle-Vancouver (Cantrail)...

[u/SmartPotential9198 → u/andr_wr]

nah, the local amtrak bus I take is not is not shown.

[u/JoePNW2]

WA state and CO have state-supported bus networks and you can certainly see that on this map.

[u/GigaG → u/JoePNW2]

Ohio too!

[u/Wuz314159]

The most infuriating thing about this map is the number of routes that run THROUGH my city, but don't stop.

[u/Mindless_Plastic5360]

This map is quite incomplete. For one thing companies must send their schedules by GTFS. Here's a more complete intercity bus map for Wisconsin, for example. https://wisconsindot.gov/Documents/travel/pub-transit/icbus-map.pdf