About BusBusGo
Most buses in West Bengal are not tracked by any hardware or government feed at all.
The Problem
Kolkata's official realtime service covers a pilot of roughly ~60 government buses across airport corridors. Every private bus — the vast majority of the network that millions rely on daily — has zero GPS units, no feed, and no updates.
The Solution
BusBusGo turns passengers into a crowdsourced transit sensor. When somebody on board shares their location, everyone standing at bus stands down the line gets real-time clarity on when their bus will arrive.
What we will never do
The easiest way to make a tracking app look impressive is to invent data: smooth animated buses gliding along routes whether anyone is on them or not, artificial confidence meters that never hit zero, or fake activity indicators on dead routes.
BusBusGo rejects all of that. When nobody is tracking a bus, the app says nobody is tracking it. When the last sighting is twenty minutes old, it says so rather than pretending it is live. A bus tracker is worthless if riders cannot trust what it says.
Where the data comes from
Live GPS Positions
Contributed voluntarily by passengers riding the bus. Stops the instant they stop tracking.
Verified Sightings
One-tap reports from bystanders and passengers, weighted by recency and community confirmations.
Routes & Stops
Curated West Bengal transit catalogue, with stop locations imported from OpenStreetMap under the ODbL licence.
Strict Privacy
Overwritten each update. Zero location history or journey breadcrumbs are ever stored.
BusBusGo is community-grown and open. The network expands with every commuter who rides and shares.