The project
A real-time bus map, born in Calabria on the Region's open data and now also in Lazio and Bari. Here you find who is behind it, where the data comes from and what the project is not.
Who's behind it
Behind Passa il bus is Danilo Tallarico, 18, a computer science student at the ITTS “E. Scalfaro” technical school in Catanzaro. He designed and built the map and the app.
The project starts from the question that anyone taking a bus in Calabria asks at the stop every day: is it late, has it already gone, or is it not coming?
Timeline
Passa il bus goes live: the real-time map of Calabria's buses, with the iPhone app.
CatanzaroInforma and CalabriaInforma cover the project.
The ITTS Scalfaro school and AMC, Catanzaro's urban transport company, sign a school-to-work training agreement that grew out of the app. Il Giornale di Calabria and CatanzaroInforma report it. The agreement is a news item: it is not an affiliation and not an endorsement of the service.
Cosenza Channel covers the project.
Catanzaro Channel and LaC News24 cover the project.
ATAM's urban buses in Reggio Calabria arrive on the map, with position and delay. StrettoWeb and il Reggino report it.
The app comes to Android too: Passa il bus is a free download on Google Play. Thanks to everyone who tested it in the weeks before launch.
The map goes beyond Calabria: Rome's buses arrive, with Atac and the other city operators, together with AMTAB's urban lines in Bari. You pick the area from the menu at the top.
Cotral buses arrive on the map with GPS across the whole of Lazio: the Rome area becomes Lazio, with Rome's buses and Cotral in every province, and for each trip the line, route, stops and delays.
In the press
All articles are in Italian.
- StrettoWeb · 2 October 2026Reggio Calabria, svolta per chi prende l’autobus: posizione e ritardi ATAM in tempo reale
- il Reggino · 2 October 2026Gli autobus ATAM di Reggio in tempo reale sulla mappa ideata da uno studente di 18 anni
- LaC News24 · 28 September 2026Studente 18enne crea l’app per sapere fra quanti minuti passa il nostro autobus
- Catanzaro Channel · 28 September 2026Studente 18enne crea l’app per sapere fra quanti minuti passa il nostro autobus
- Cosenza Channel · 26 September 2026Ha 18 anni e ha creato «Passa il bus»: autobus di Cosenza e Rende in tempo reale sulla mappa
- CatanzaroInforma · 24 September 2026Scalfaro e Amc, un'app per la mobilità cittadina e una convenzione per la formazione scuola lavoro
- Il Giornale di Calabria · 24 September 2026Convenzione tra ITTS «Scalfaro» di Catanzaro e AMC nell'ambito della formazione scuola-lavoro. Lo studente Danilo Tallarico ha progettato l'app passailbus.it
- CatanzaroInforma · 22 September 2026Passa il bus? Un'app, progettata da un 18enne dell'Itts Scalfaro, risponde in tempo reale
- CalabriaInforma · 22 September 2026Passa il bus? Una app, progettata da un 18enne dell'Itts Scalfaro, risponde in tempo reale
Where the data comes from
Timetables, stops and routes in Calabria: Regione Calabria open data, a GTFS feed published by the Regional Operations Centre (CORe), licensed CC BY 4.0, regenerated daily.
Positions in Calabria: the regional service, to which operators transmit, and for some lines the operators' own on-board systems.
Lazio: timetables and positions from Roma Servizi per la Mobilità open data (GTFS and GTFS Realtime) for Rome, and from the Cotral on-board system for the whole region.
Bari: timetables and positions published by AMTAB (GTFS and GTFS Realtime), for the urban lines.
Base map: OpenStreetMap. Fonts, scripts and images are hosted on Passa il bus's own domains. Visits to the site are counted with Simple Analytics, also served from a Passa il bus domain, with no cookies and without identifying readers: details are on the Privacy page.
What it is not
It is not a service of any public body or transport operator, and none of them controls or endorses it. The official timetables are those published by whoever runs the service. For complaints, refunds and tickets, contact the operator. The terms of use say the rest.
Write to us
For a problem with the map: supporto@passailbus.it. For personal data: amministrazione@passailbus.it. The Contact page explains what to include in a report.