Real-time positions, delays and departure times on the map.
Open the live map of ApeldoornApeldoorn is a sprawling, green city and its bus network is built for that: from the station and the Marktplein the city routes fan out to Zevenhuizen, De Maten, Zuidbroek, Orden and the Gelre hospital. RRReis runs those services and also the regional buses that climb onto the Veluwe towards Zwolle, Arnhem, Ede and Harderwijk. Because RRReis publishes live positions, all of those buses slide across the OVatlas map with their line numbers attached.
The station sits on the east-west line between Amersfoort and Deventer, so intercities towards Enschede and those towards Amsterdam both call here. A sprinter additionally runs on through Deventer and Almelo into Twente. For passengers that means a decent connection with the Randstad without changing trains. On OVatlas each of those trains gets its own marker, so it stays clear which series you are looking at.
In season, visitor traffic is added on top: the shuttle to Apenheul and the palace park runs more often then than during the winter months. The buses towards the woods of Hoog Soeren and Beekbergen swing the same way. The map therefore promises no frequency and simply shows what is genuinely inbound at each stop, which saves disappointment on a route running far less often than it does at peak times.
Yes, a shuttle runs from the station to Apenheul and the palace park. How often it goes depends heavily on the season, so open the stop on OVatlas to see whether and when the next bus is due to leave.
RRReis operates both the city lines and the regional buses to Zwolle, Arnhem, Ede and Harderwijk; NS runs the trains. Both supply live vehicle positions, so bus and train alike appear on the map as markers carrying their current delay.
Both intercities and sprinters use this route, but the number of runs per hour varies with the time of day. OVatlas quotes no fixed frequency; open the station on the map and the next departures are listed there.
Disruptions and planned works are listed at the stops they affect. When replacement buses run, the feeds often carry departure times without any position, which means the run shows at the stop but not as a marker on the map.