Will it be difficult to create a "clone" of Yandex.Transport for a small satellite town?

Question

Programming

Hello!
I live in a small satellite city, I work in a big one. I get, like thousands of other citizens, on a suburban bus. Of course, he has to wait in a variety of weather conditions, which does not suit me, that's why.
From work to the stop I need, I get by tram, the location of which can be easily found out using the application, and not to freeze my bodies for nothing. Why not do the same with suburban traffic, I thought.
Thinking and dreaming is one thing, but doing something is completely different.
And, since I'm not strong in development and technical parts, I decided to first ask for advice from professionals.
Several questions are of interest:
0. How difficult is it and is it worth it at all?
1. How much will it cost at the development stage?
2. How much will it cost after launch? (technical support, data updating, placement of advertising banners)
*I would like to see the average figures, for how much they would undertake
. I will not dissemble, the project involves making a profit.
In conclusion: you have every right to throw anything at random :) and say that unfortunate start-ups are divorced and there is nothing to breed demagogy here, BUT, if it’s not difficult to explain, please explain.
UPD The entire fleet of buses is equipped with the Glonass system and all that, will it simplify the situation?

Answer 1

> I'm not strong in the development and technical parts, I decided to ask the professionals for advice first, it
will be very difficult
> How much will it cost at the development stage?
depends on the composition of the team, on the level of technology used, but at least several million rubles
> How much will it cost after launch?
depends on the scale, not the fact that it will be a profitable application

Answer 2

Of course, he has to wait in a variety of weather conditions, which does not suit me.

Binoculars?
Or: get to know the dispatcher at the end station, know the time before your stop, call to find out if the route has been sent.
There is a bus from Reutov to Balashikha once an hour and there seems to be a schedule, but maybe not on time, and even miss it. I call, I ask, if I left, I go out.

Answer 3

0. How difficult is it and is it worth it at all?

not difficult. If from the very beginning you have such a question, you should not take it.

1. How much will it cost at the development stage?
2. How much will it cost after launch? (technical support, data update, placement of advertising banners)

there will be more difficulties in terms of establishing communication.
write TK, make cost calculations and look for those who will do business.
Business is not done as you want.
Nobody puts candy in his mouth

Answer 4

In addition to the technical side, projects of this kind have serious legal issues (and you should be aware of them). For example,
1. The use of cartographic information is severely limited. Because the project is supposed to be commercial, then this is not fun at all)
2.

The entire fleet of buses is equipped with the Glonass system and everything else,

Accordingly, the data belongs to some state corporation, will you try to negotiate?!
Most importantly, the technical scale of the project does not correspond to the volume of the audience, it is impossible to recoup.

Answer 5

0. How difficult is it and is it worth it at all?
If you can get geo-data from them, then there are no special problems from the technical side. You draw a map on the web page and once every n-seconds you re-request the data for the desired area. Voila.
If there is data, then one or two days. Therefore, several thousand rubles.
2. How much will it cost after launch? (technical support, data updating, placement of advertising banners)
*I would like to see the average figures for how much the
Server cost would have come from. Banners? Are you sure that the application will become so popular in your satellite city that it will make sense to spin banners in it?
Then you will need to:
- find out if the services are against this use of their maps
- smooth movement of labels, and not just drawing a kind of "slide show".
- buffering, the bus cannot disappear, and after 10 seconds return, which means some kind of inertial system for the movement of tags
- the tags should go along the road, and not as lucky. This means a thoughtful study of the api of Yandex, Google, 2gis.
- drive the schedule so as not to request data on routes that have not left / left the line
- infa from dispatchers, if the bus suddenly breaks down, then remove or mark the label
And the most difficult thing is if no one gives you the data. Then you can beg them for a long time to give them, find a compromise, contact those who are given them and find out why they do not make such an application themselves, you can buy gps trackers yourself and slowly put them on the right routes.

Answer 6

It's easier to become a representative of some office that already does this.
There are several of those. They already work each in several cities.
Choose.

Answer 7

if the bus has a Wi-Fi point, then OSM maps and track the coordinates of the bus by passengers with the Internet, from the application (from the Wi-Fi point you only need an identifier to determine the accuracy of coordinates, averaging by the number of participants, signal strength and all that)
almost 2GIS and most importantly no problems with cooperation with the state office
, yes, it will reliably work only during rush hour, but is this really necessary?
PS it is possible without Wi-Fi id - only by neighbors, indirect analysis by coordinates and speed