Conductor was designed specifically for railfans and transit nerds, and built from the ground up to solve a single problem: How can we present as much data as possible about each transit service?
This is in contrast to the majority of other public transport access applications - where the main focus os on getting you from A to B, and without much thought as to what happens between. That between is where Conductor steps up, providing detailed information on every aspect of that trip, vehicle, service, schedule, route… Everything the transit operator publishes, Conductor aims to display.
The result is a powerful data visualisation and aggregation platform that shows everything you could know about your city’s transit network, and more.
While Conductor will eventually include route planning capabilities, these won’t be intended for actual use - A seperate app for commuters is bring designed.
The application stack for conductor comprises a split brain service - the logic of loading and processing route data is handled by the Pantograph backend and loaded into a unified database that all Pantograph Industries applications can call and pull from. From there, a server stack running on the Bun runtime processes that data and serves it to a VueJS web application.