This is a project to extract GTFS data from MDV's EFA
MDV (Mentz Datenverarbeitung) is a german software company that makes transport and timetable software
Their product known as Elektronische Fahrplanauskunft (EFA) provides an XML/JSON based API https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronische_Fahrplanauskunft https://www.mentzdv.de
GTFS is the open General Transit Feed Specification, commonly used by google maps: https://github.com/google/transitfeed/wiki
Please feel free to contribute, accepting pull requests
This project is in no way affiliated with any of the companies or products mentioned
EFA was previously known as diva and some projects exist for converting the previous format to gtfs https://github.com/stkdiretto/diva2gtfs
OpenEFA has some documentation relating to the API https://code.google.com/p/openefa
Golang client for EFA https://github.com/michiwend/goefa
http://data.linz.gv.at/katalog/linz_ag/linz_ag_linien/fahrplan/LINZ_AG_Linien_Schnitstelle_EFA_v7_Echtzeit.pdf http://content.tfl.gov.uk/journey-planner-api-documentation.pdf
From: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference
| Filename | Required | Status |
|---|---|---|
| agency.txt | y | Static - Complete |
| stops.txt | y | Complete |
| routes.txt | y | Complete |
| trips.txt | y | In progress |
| stop_times.txt | y | todo |
| calendar.txt | y | todo |
| calendar_dates.txt | n | |
| fare_attributes.txt | n | |
| fare_rules.txt | n | |
| shapes.txt | n | |
| frequencies.txt | n | |
| transfers.txt | n | |
| feed_info.txt | n |
Planning to migrate to using the pygtfs python library