I have to admit that I don’t know since when the Zugradar (train radar) of the Deutsche Bahn (DB) is online, but I found it per accident and I think it’s fun to play around with it. The DB commonly has a bad reputation because of the many delays, so here you can now see how many trains are actually moving and how fast they (sometimes) are. It’s possible to display long-distance trains (IC and ICE) as well as regional trains. Check out the high-speed train from Frankfurt Airport to Cologne, which goes with 300 km/h over almost the entire distance, pretty impressive!
![Screenshot of the Zugradar by Deutsche Bahn. (Image source: bahn.de)](https://digital-geography.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bahn1-300x277.jpg)
Some of those live maps are not only useful, but also beautiful. Check for example Flightradar24, an airplane tracking service. The map is simple and informative, and there is a lot of additional info available when you click the small planes.
More vehicle tracking sites:
- The ÖBB Zugradar for Austria (well, not so beautiful)
- The vesselfinder for ships (pretty nice)
- Sailwx, another ship tracker (not really fancy)
- Marinetraffic for ship traffic worldwide (not bad)
- The NOAA ship tracker from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (quite beautiful)
- Planefinder – world-wide airplane traffic (very impressive!)
Do you know about other tracking websites that we must see?
Real Time San Francisco Bay ship traffic
http://hd-sf.com/livemap.html
But I don’t see the DB -train from Dresden to Wroclaw??,
and in Poland nobady say that the DB has bad reputation:)
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Bus radar Wroclaw
http://pasazer.mpk.wroc.pl/jak-jezdzimy/mapa-pozycji-pojazdow