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GTFS

A GTFS feed is composed of a series of text files collected in a ZIP file. Each file models a particular aspect of transit information: stops, routes, trips, and other schedule data. The details of each file are defined in the GTFS reference.

GTFS Spezification: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference/

Check out https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/awesome-transit for an up to date list of GTFS sources, tools and more.

  • Routes are equivalent to “Lines” in public transportation systems. Routes are defined in the file routes.txt, and are made up of one or more Trips.
  • A Trip represents a journey taken by a vehicle through Stops. Trips are time-specific — they are defined as a sequence of StopTimes, so a single Trip represents one journey along a transit line or route.
  • A StopTime defines when a vehicle arrives at a location, how long it stays there, and when it departs.

Data

Tools

GTFS.html

quickly browse/validate a GTFS file. It even includes a map view.

Visit https://gtfs.pleasantprogrammer.com and upload your GTFS (it's a local web app)

static-GTFS-manager

GTFS editor, not as powerful as IBI transit (e.g. does not even have a map view for routes), but easy to install (simply download and run the executable)

https://github.com/WRI-Cities/static-GTFS-manager

IBI transit

Suite for importing / creating / editing and publishing GTFS feeds.

Quite complex to set up, but very powerful: https://data-tools-docs.ibi-transit.com/en/latest/dev/deployment/

OneBusAway (Java/CLI)

Nice command line tool to extract / merge / edit GTFS.

OneBusAway is a library for transforming and merging GTFS data sets. Amongst others it features two handy CLIs:

http://developer.onebusaway.org/modules/onebusaway-gtfs-modules/current/onebusaway-gtfs-transformer-cli.html
http://developer.onebusaway.org/modules/onebusaway-gtfs-modules/current/onebusaway-gtfs-merge-cli.html

As of 2021 current builds are no longer provided (not in maven central, and not on the onebusaway nexus) - so probably you have to build it from source.

Nexus:
http://nexus.onebusaway.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/onebusaway/onebusaway-gtfs-transformer-cli
http://nexus.onebusaway.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/onebusaway/onebusaway-gtfs-merge-cli

Example: remove AST

no_ast.txt:

{"op":"remove","match":{"file":"routes.txt","route_short_name":"AST AST"}}
{"op":"remove","match":{"file":"routes.txt","route_short_name":"AST AST Maxi"}}
java -jar onebusaway-gtfs-transformer-cli-1.3.X.jar --transform=remove_ast.txt gtfs.zip gtfs_without_ast.zip

Example: only keep two lines from a whole dataset

java -jar onebusaway-gtfs-transformer-cli-1.3.34.jar --transform='{"op":"retain", "match":{"file":"routes.txt", "route_short_name":"31"}}' --transform='{"op":"retain", "match":{"file":"routes.txt", "route_short_name":"33A"}}' gtfs_vienna.zip gtfs_vienna_only31+33A.zip

transitfeed (Python - outdated!)

by Google https://github.com/google/transitfeed/wiki

sudo pip install transitfeed

Or get the trunk from

svn co https://github.com/google/transitfeed.git/trunk

Comes with some command line tools

  • feedvalidator
  • kmlwriter

Python

Others

Working with GTFS

On receiving a GTFS archive

Use transitfeeds feedvalidator.py on a zip file to obtain a detailed report on the data quality.

gtfs.txt · Last modified: 2021/09/09 10:53 by mstraub