We Started Because Public Transport Kept Losing to Apps
Cities invest billions in buses, trains, and trams. In the apps people use to plan their day, public transport still loses to ride-hailing and private cars.
The transport itself works fine. The data doesn't. Fragmented, unvalidated, or missing transit data means riders can't trust the schedule, developers can't build on it, and cities can't measure what's happening.
busmaps fixes this layer. We aggregate, validate, and deliver transit information for 300,000+ routes across 90+ countries with real-time positions, arrival predictions, and a global API.
Trustworthy data puts more people on transit. More transit riders mean fewer cars. We build the infrastructure for that chain.
Our Mission
We make public transport digitally competitive with private cars. Better transit data leads to lower friction, more riders, and less car dependence.
Transit Accessibility Infrastructure
Public transport loses to Uber and private cars on user experience, even when it moves people more efficiently. We make transit systems digitally readable so apps can present them as a real option.
Modal Shift Enabler
Every app built on the busmaps API helps someone pick a bus over a car. We sit upstream in the sustainable mobility chain and take that role seriously.
Global with Local Depth
Official GTFS where it exists. WikiRoutes crowdsourced data where it doesn't. This combination covers Africa, South Asia, and CIS countries where billions of daily trips stay invisible to Google Maps and HERE.
How the Model Works
Public transport information should be widely accessible to riders. But validated global feeds, real-time processing, support, SLAs, and regional deployments are not free to operate.
End users get free utility through our public-facing products. Organizations and developers pay for reliability, scale, and integration speed. This is how we keep the infrastructure durable without compromising access.
The busmaps Manifesto
Cities work. Transit works. The data doesn't.
People choose their car over a functional bus because the schedule app was wrong, the stop moved, or there was no real-time info. The transit ran fine. The data failed.
This is an infrastructure problem, not an attitude problem.
Public transport moves more people per unit of energy, per square meter of road, per gram of CO₂ than any private alternative. It loses on digital experience, where commuters make their decisions.
busmaps builds the data layer that closes this gap. Validated, real-time, global transit data so that apps and city platforms can present public transport as a first choice.
We don't protest car culture. We outcompete it with better data.
Leadership
Alexander Mustafin
Founder & CEOBackground in mathematics and IT. Alexander created busmaps to unify fragmented transport data into one reliable standard. He focuses on making public mobility as digitally accessible as car-first services.
David Mkrtchan
CTO18+ years in IT. David leads engineering for transport data verification, error correction, and data integrity across 7,000+ feeds.
Ivan Ulitin
Domain Expert & CPOUrban studies and cartography. Ivan drives data quality above industry standards and shapes the product based on partner feedback.
Build on Our Infrastructure
Developer building a mobility app? City working on ridership? Sustainability team tracking modal shift? We have the data layer.