University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Magic Bus (U-M Transit) BusTime API

Real-time campus transit API for U-M's Magic Bus service, served from a U-M host on Clever Devices BusTime. Live and gated by an API access key — GET /bustime/api/v3/getroutes and /bustime/api/v3/gettime both returned HTTP 200 text/xml with "No API access key supplied" on 2026-08-19. No public self-service key issuance page was found. The rider-facing app at the root is an Angular single-page application. One of the few genuinely small, institution-run campus-life surfaces U-M has.

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https://mbus.ltp.umich.edu/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-michigan-ann-arbor:magic-bus
name: Magic Bus (U-M Transit) BusTime API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: mbus.ltp.umich.edu is under umich.edu and is run by U-M Logistics, Transportation
  and Parking. The BusTime software is Clever Devices' product; the deployment, the routes and the vehicle
  data are U-M's. Clever Devices' generic contract is not stored here.
description: Real-time campus transit API for U-M's Magic Bus service, served from a U-M host on Clever
  Devices BusTime. Live and gated by an API access key — GET /bustime/api/v3/getroutes and /bustime/api/v3/gettime
  both returned HTTP 200 text/xml with "<bustime-response><error><msg>No API access key supplied</msg></error></bustime-response>"
  on 2026-08-19. No public self-service key issuance page was found. The rider-facing app at the root
  is an Angular single-page application. One of the few genuinely small, institution-run campus-life surfaces
  U-M has.
humanURL: https://mbus.ltp.umich.edu/
baseURL: https://mbus.ltp.umich.edu/bustime/api/v3
tags:
- Transit
- Campus Life
- Real-Time
- Gated
- BusTime
tags_raw:
- Transit
- Campus Life
- Real Time
- Gated
- BusTime
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://mbus.ltp.umich.edu/