🚇🚞🚌 Romanian Open Transit Initiative 🚋🚈🚡

📝 Project and resource list

1. 📎 Data sources

   (structured / processable data) There has to be a starting point :)

   • Passenger railway operators static timetable, published anually, XML format
   • Iași urban transit: GPS positions in real-time, JSON
   • Bucharest urban transit: lines, stations, departures in real time, timetables, GPS positions
     Details

   https://info.stbsa.ro/rp/api/lines/
   https://info.stbsa.ro/rp/api/lines/:line_id/
   https://info.stbsa.ro/rp/api/lines/:line_id/direction/:direction_id
   https://info.stbsa.ro/rp/api/lines/:line_id/stops/:stop_id?lang=:lang_code
   https://info.stbsa.ro/rp/api/lines/:line_id/vehicles/:direction_id
   https://info.stbsa.ro/rp/api/notifications

   segment_path line shape is to be decoded with https://github.com/jieter/Leaflet.encoded

   • Constanța urban transit: lines, stations, departures in real time, timetables, GPS positions

• Sibiu local urban transit operator GTFS (Official)

2. ⚙️ Data converters

   (exporters, processors etc.) From proprietary to standard/open formats

   • Railway XML data to GTFS, Ruby - also includes a very handy GeoJSON file of all Romanian railway stations with names and GPS positions
   • Real time railway data (train departures, delays, platform numbers updated minutely) to JSON API and WebUI - Python
   • [Generate up-to-date GTFS files from custom local transit API used by Bucharest & Constanța] Follow the link below
   • GTFS Realtime protocol buffer vehicle positions converter for Iași
   • GTFS Realtime protocol buffer vehicle positions converter for Bucharest (find official GTFS portal below) & Constanța
   • Static GTFS exporter for Iași - This is still a work in progress and currently only exports frequency-based routes and is buggy.

3. 🗺️ Data visualizers

   (maps, apps etc.) Make it beautiful

   • GTFS transit-map simulation - static webapp, also needs GTFS-viz Ruby converter to GeoJSON
   • Real time train information - Cordova Android app

⁉️ WTF Zone - We don't know what this is but it belongs here

• Some attempt at an GTFS backend by GovITHub
  Historical?

  Not relevant as data or install guides anymore, but interesting study materials on past projects: * https://github.com/cnicules/OTP-Buh/wiki (also check the code!)

📥 Download center

🚍 Grab some ready-made GTFS Files

• National Railway (converted): Download here
• Local transit, Bucharest (official): Download here
• Local transit, Constanța (generated): Download here
• Local transit, Iași (generated): Download here
• Local transit, Sibiu (official): Download here

🕬 Contribute

By pull request or by opening an issue.

📧 Get in touch

Email the maintainer at bogdan@transportpublic.ro

📅 Milestones

• [ ] Get a few other developers onboard (2-3 for this year)
• [ ] Roll out our own instance of the beautiful Digitransit trip-planning webapp, fully open source Finnish software which works for them in production and also at nation-level
  Get a sneak peek