NYC Subway Operation Simulation

This subway simulation by Railbandit, mentioned in the NY Times article about the MTA app contest, is very close to what I envisioned for the how the app would look. However, it is still only a simulation, a time-lapse depiction of train movements during a normal weekday derived from the MTA’s published schedule, without any real-time functionality. Railbandit also has a sophisticated mobile app for the NYC subway that shows upcoming departure times for trains, but I think it is still based on published schedules and does not gather any real-time information on actual train movement.