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ACTV Maps, Timetables, and Apps

View schedules or download PDF files to your computer, tablet, or smartphone from the Venice public-transportation network's Web site. Apps for iPhones and Android phones are also available.

ABOVE: This thumbnail shows ACTV's easy-to-read route map, which you can download as a large, scalable PDF file from ACTV's Web site.

By Durant Imboden

ACTV, Venice's public-transit agency, has published a number of useful documents that you can view on your computer, tablet, or smartphone or print before leaving for Venice.

To save you the hassle of trying to find the maps and timebables on the ACTV's confusing Web site, we've provided links to the relevant pages below.

ACTV Waterbus or Vaporetto Maps

This page has green buttons for:

A downloadable PDF map that shows all "waterborne" or waterbus lines.
A very useful interactive line map. (Click on a line number, and the route will appear on the stylized map of Venice and its islands.)
A map of bus services in Mestre and Marghera, on the Italian mainland. (These areas have many inexpensive hotels and hotels with parking.)

The page also has:

Links to PDF maps of large waterbus stops such as Piazzale Roma, the railroad station, Rialto, the Piazza San Marco area, and the Lido. (These stops have multiple platforms, so the maps make it easier to find the right pier for a given waterbus line.)

ACTV Waterbus Timetables

This journey planner is in Italian, but it's easy to use:

Choose a line by clicking on the vaporetto route's timetable symbol. (Note that each line has two timetables, one in each direction.)
Under "Cerco dalle," select a time. Also select the day/date ("Il giorno") and your departure stop under "Cerca fermata di questa linea."
The results will show three times, including the departure time at the beginning of the line, the time when the boat will reach your stop, and the arrival time at the far end of the line.

Click the link above to find land buses between the mainland districts of Mestre and Marghera and Venice's Piazzale Roma, for travel within Mestre's urban bus network on the Venetian mainland, and for suburban/exurban bus routes.

ACTV operates trams in Mestre and Marghera, plus a Line 1 tram between Mestre and Venice's Piazzale Roma.

ACTV smartphone apps

The parent agency of Venice's transit service has free smartphone apps for iOS and Android. See:

Caveats:

Durant Imboden has written about Venice, Italy since 1996. He covered Venice and European travel at About.com for 4-1/2 years before launching Europe for Visitors (including Venice for Visitors) with Cheryl Imboden in 2001.

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