BayesianBahn Navegação GPS e Mapas app para Android descrição
Early release: predictions are experimental — always cross-check times and connections with DBs official apps.
BayesianBahn predicts when you will actually arrive — as a full probability distribution, not a single number.
Enter where you start, where you want to go and when (also future trips): the app searches direct trains and journeys with one change — routes needing two or more changes are not covered yet, so it will sometimes find fewer connections than DBs own apps. For each option it shows:
- the median predicted arrival time at your destination,
- an 80% credible interval,
- the full delay distribution as a chart,
- the probability of catching each connecting train,
- a Deutschland-Ticket filter that keeps you on regional trains.
Transfers are propagated with Bayes theorem: you board the first connecting train that has not left yet — so a delayed earlier train counts as catchable, and a missed connection honestly shifts the whole distribution. Live station boards and per-train predictions (including cancellation rates) are also available.
Predictions are empirical: they come from months of real historical runs of that exact train at that station (collected from Deutsche Bahns public IRIS API, CC BY 4.0), reweighted for recency and weekday. When DB reports an actual delay the forecast is anchored on it; when it reports nothing — which it does for most trains until shortly before departure — the history is left to speak for itself, which measurably beats treating the timetable as a forecast. Delay history updates in-app — a small daily data release keeps predictions fresh to within a day. Trains without history get an honest Bayesian prior estimate.
The app talks only to the keyless public IRIS timetable endpoint and the projects own data releases, needs no account, no API key, no Google services, and collects no data.
