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Java-based tool that validates General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)-realtime feeds
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New Rule Proposal: Feed-wide threshold of TripUpdate records having missing/stale timestamp #163

Open evansiroky opened 1 year ago

evansiroky commented 1 year ago

Summary:

A warning should be raised whenever a feed-wide threshold has been met among all TripUpdate entities that have a missing or stale timestamp.

Steps to reproduce:

Given a TripUpdate dataset When the validator has scanned each individual TripUpdate record and detects that a certain feed-wide threshold of those records have a timestamp that is missing or stale Then the validator should flag the TripUpdate feed in question for having a feed-wide problem of missing or stale timestamps being set

Expected behavior:

The GTFS-Realtime Best Practices state:

Data within a GTFS Realtime feed should not be older than 90 seconds for Trip Updates and Vehicle Positions and not older than 10 minutes for Service Alerts.

The GTFS Validator should flag an error whenever a certain percent of TripUpdate records do not have a timestamp value added or one that is added but is far enough in the past that it is stale.

Observed behavior:

Timestamps are currently only checked at the feed-level.

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