Abfahrt

Abfahrt is a departure board for the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund: the S-Bahn, U-Bahn, trams, buses and regional trains in and around Frankfurt, read the way somebody standing at the stop reads it. WHAT IT SHOWS • What leaves next, with the live time rather than the timetable wherever RMV has one. • Which way out it goes from — the platform at a station, or the side of the street, named by the stop everything there calls at next. • How late it is running, and whether it has been cancelled at all. • Where the next vehicles of a line actually are, drawn on a map, when you tap it. • The whole run of a train or bus, stop by stop, with the times it is keeping. • Service messages from across the network, narrowed to the lines and stops you care about. NEAR ME The stops within 500 metres, nearest first, with the modes that call at each one. Abfahrt opens here, so it asks for your position when…