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Free Public Transport Assistant without Ads or Tracking
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Realtime information for Paris/France #659

Closed bre75 closed 4 years ago

bre75 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

As some of you may know, we're facing a month long strike of transportation in France.

For Paris, everyday the public transport company (RATP) is publishing the state of the network for the next day. But even thought it may change on the actual day depending of the situation and unions will.

Since the beginning of the strike i had unfortunately to switch to another application (citymapper) because they include the realtime situation strike included and this option was not available on Transportr. Transportr was even offering me routes through lines that were/are completely closed.

As strike is the national favorite hobby in France, i'd love to find this kind of option in my favorite transport application.

Is it something possible ? Planned ?

Best regards,

grote commented 4 years ago

You need to ask Navitia as the data comes from there.

ialokim commented 4 years ago

Just for notekeeping: RATP offers a realtime api, but PTE doesn't support it for now. You could consider opening an issue over there as well.

bre75 commented 4 years ago

I'm not a developer but to be sure to understand well. It means it's the API you're calling that is not providing real time data for Paris ?

Maybe i'm innocent on this but I thought there was only one main source, the RATP one, realtime and that all the transport application are using as a base before adding their own features.

Am I wrong ?

(it's just for my global understanding) :)

grote commented 4 years ago

Transportr just calls Navitia's API and shows what it returns. All further questions about the API need to be directed to Navitia. AFAIK it does have some preliminary support for realtime information, but this isn't implemented in PTE (which Transportr uses to call that API) as written above.

bre75 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your answer i understand better.

If i have to summarize I'd say that as long as PTE doesn't support realtime, whatever API called, it won't work.

ialokim commented 4 years ago

Exactly, just a minor correction: as long as PTE doesn't support Navitia's realtime API and/or Navitia doesn't deliver realtime information for RATP; or PTE implements the official realtime API for Paris it won't work :)

ialokim commented 4 years ago

As nobody is working on this, I'm going to close this issue for now. Feel free to drop a new comment if you want to contribute here and/or if PTE or Navitia provides realtime data.