Real-time positions, delays and departure times on the map.
Open the live map of MaastrichtMaastricht occupies a corner of the country where three nations meet, and the network reflects that. Arriva runs both the city buses and the regional trains, De Lijn comes in from Belgian Limburg, and line 350 continues over Vaals into Aachen. The Maas cuts the city in two, so almost every urban route has to take a bridge somewhere; OVatlas shows you exactly where a given bus has got to.
The railway turns mainly on two stations. Maastricht Centraal on the east bank receives the intercities from Eindhoven, Den Bosch and the Randstad, while Maastricht Randwyck serves the academic hospital and the university faculties. Between them runs Arriva's local train, carrying on to Valkenburg, Heerlen and Kerkrade. Because Arriva supplies both bus and train here, those runs sit side by side on the map under their own line numbers.
Across the border the picture thins out. Dutch operators publish their positions to the national real-time feeds, but German and Flemish operators do not always do so, and a cross-border bus can therefore drop out of sight once it leaves the country. What OVatlas still gives you in that case are the departure times at the Dutch stops, including the delay the run left with.
You can. Bus line 350 runs via Vaals straight into the centre of Aachen, and there is a rail connection towards Liège. Foreign operators do not always publish to the Dutch feeds, so live tracking may stop at the border.
Three: Maastricht Centraal, Maastricht Randwyck beside the academic hospital and the university faculties, and Maastricht Noord on the line towards Sittard. Intercities from the Randstad call at Centraal; the local train to Heerlen serves Centraal and Randwyck. Each appears separately on the map.
They do. De Lijn runs from the station to Hasselt, Genk, Tongeren and Maaseik, some of it via Lanaken. OVatlas lists those lines at the stop; how far they can be tracked live depends on what the Flemish operator passes on.
Maastricht has transfer sites on its northern and southern approaches, among them P+R Noord beside the A2, with a direct city bus into town. Open the park-and-ride stop on OVatlas to see when the next bus towards the centre leaves.