# MBTA Tracker

MBTA Tracker is a search-first Boston transit web app optimized for quick, low-friction decisions with live data.

## Purpose
- Help riders find routes, stops, addresses, and vehicles fast
- Prioritize compact text-first answers before map-heavy workflows
- Reduce cognitive load during real-time transit decisions

## Canonical Public Pages
- `/` Home and primary search workflow
- `/share` Public explainer and FAQ landing page
- `/about` Product philosophy and design principles
- `/privacy` Privacy and telemetry summary

## Machine-Readable Discovery
- `/sitemap.xml` Search engine sitemap
- `/robots.txt` Crawl directives
- `/ai.txt` AI-facing profile and crawl guidance

## APIs (non-index landing content, runtime data)
- `/api/search`
- `/api/route/*`
- `/api/stop/*`
- `/api/vehicle/*`
- `/api/alerts`
- `/api/telemetry`

## Data Sources and Attribution
- MBTA data APIs
- MapLibre
- OpenStreetMap
- Nominatim
- CARTO

## Publisher
- Aarti S Ravikumar
- https://ai-aarti.com