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TheTransitClock real-time transit information system
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Support for GTFS-ride files. #125

Open scrudden opened 5 years ago

scrudden commented 5 years ago

Read in gtfs-ride files. This data should help estimate demand at stops to further inform dwell time predictions.

This is experimental.

scrudden commented 5 years ago

I have done some of this here apc. This now reads the board_alight.txt file into the database

barbeau commented 5 years ago

cc @LeoFrachet @antrim @sheldonabrown

@antrim @sheldonabrown do you have any GTFS-ride datasets you can share?

antrim commented 5 years ago

I know that there have been some datasets prepared as part of the https://www.gtfs-ride.org/ project. I'll send a separate email asking about this.

cc: @carletop @ODOT-RPTD-mb

barbeau commented 5 years ago

Thanks @antrim!

@scrudden To my knowledge (someone correct me if you disagree), it should be noted that there is still some discussion (or alternate uses, is maybe a better way to describe it) over whether the GTFS-ride format should hold historical information for one period with strict start and end dates (i.e., Q1 2018), or if it should contain averaged data over a larger period of time that's always current. The work @sheldonabrown and I (and others) have been doing to add historical occupancy information to OneBusAway falls into the latter category.

carletop commented 5 years ago

@scrudden At this point, I don't believe any agencies are producing their own GTFS-ride feeds. There are several feeds that have been created by the OSU team. As @barbeau mentions, these feeds are limited to the small date ranges specified in a single published GTFS feed from the agency. @scrudden I may be able to share some of these GTFS-ride feeds for testing purposes. I'll look into it and get back to you.

scrudden commented 5 years ago

@carletop Thanks, that would be a great help.

scrudden commented 5 years ago

Perhaps another approach. Are there any agencies that could provide data that could be transformed into GTFS-ride format? in particular, data that could be reflected in a board_alight .txt file?

scrudden commented 5 years ago

Code on branch apc now imports ride_sample_simple.zip file. The way I tested this was by running quickstart and selecting the ride file.