About Bus Route Trainer
GPS-guided voice navigation that helps bus drivers learn routes by driving them in their own vehicle.
The problem with learning routes
When you start as a bus driver, you need to know every turn, every stop, and every street before your first shift behind the wheel. The routes need to be in your head.
The traditional options are limited: ride along with a senior driver if one is available, study paper maps and route guides at home, or drive the route alone in your car with no guidance and hope you remember it.
Many drivers do their route familiarisation in their own time, unpaid, with no tools designed for the job. They drive the route once or twice, scribble notes, and hope it sticks.
This is stressful, inconsistent, and wasteful. There had to be a better way.
Built by a driver who needed a better way
Bus Route Trainer was born from firsthand experience of how hard it is to learn routes without proper tools.
GPS-guided navigation
Voice-guided turn-by-turn directions along the exact bus route path.
Every turn and stop announced
Drive in your own car and hear each turn and bus stop as you approach.
Official transit data
Routes are built from official public transit data — the exact path the bus follows.
A training aid, not a replacement
Bus Route Trainer is designed to help drivers build familiarity and confidence with their routes. It is not a replacement for official route instructions, road signs, traffic laws, or operator-issued route guides. Always follow your employer's training procedures and on-road signage.
Data attribution
Route data is derived from publicly available transit data sources, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) :
- Metro Tasmania / Tasmanian Department of State Growth
Street name data from OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) .
Route data has been processed and enhanced for navigation training purposes. It may not reflect the most current timetables or route paths.
Proven Innovation Pty Ltd
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