departure and arrival times

[Rabi]

Dear All,
I don't know where to post this so I am posting it here.
I use DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit). My trip requires me to
transfer at various stations. Due to variation in schedule and traffic
condition, I find myself waiting more than 15 mins at times.

I am thinking of making an application which can display route timings
for a specified route only. This can run in a mobile phone and alert
me about the next bus schedule. I want some help. Is there a way I can
query for route information using google transit website? As simple as
how many routes are there in DART system. Then we can select the
desired route and get information about schedule and other details.

Please suggest if there are things like that already existing. At
least if I could find a method to retrieve route numbers and schedule
would be great.

Thanks.
Rabi

[Joe Hughes]

Hi Rabi,

You're in luck! DART is one of the agencies that's taken the lead in
making its raw schedule data available to the public for developers
like you to use; the DART feed is available here:
http://www.dart.org/transitdata/

The data is in GTFS format, which is specified here:
http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

If you're a Python or Java developer, there are some libraries for
working with this data format in the GoogleTransitDataFeed open-source
project:
http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/

As an aside, I'm happy to report that Sacramento RT and Orange County
Transportation Authority recently joined the set of agencies that are
making their feeds available for developer use:
http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds

Hope this helps,
Joe

[Rabi]

Dear Joe,
Thank you so much for your reply. I was aware of the feeds from DART.
My problem is the information they make available in the website is
updated as a zip file and there is no way to check the most recent
feeds. Since I don't have a server, I can't host the route
information. This application I am focusing is a flash Actionscript
2.0. (or perhaps 3.0 soon...). I was looking for an asp or something
which can help me get the total number of routes... and when I query a
specific route, it would give me further details about it.

Since there should be a mechanism to query the routes with google
transit, I was wondering if that same query could be used with my
application. Like may be calling a method or a function to retrieve
details.

I again appreciate your suggestions.
Thank you,
Rabi

On Jan 9, 6:57 pm, "Joe Hughes" <joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rabi,
>
> You're in luck! DART is one of the agencies that's taken the lead in
> making its raw schedule data available to the public for developers
> like you to use; the DART feed is available here:http://www.dart.org/transitdata/
>
> The data is in GTFS format, which is specified here:http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html
>
> If you're a Python or Java developer, there are some libraries for
> working with this data format in the GoogleTransitDataFeed open-source
> project:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/
>
> As an aside, I'm happy to report that Sacramento RT and Orange County
> Transportation Authority recently joined the set of agencies that are
> making their feeds available for developer use:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds
>
> Hope this helps,
> Joe
>

[fowe]

I am highly excited and impressed about the Google Transit project.
Just want to ask if there are any plans under way for the state of
Arkansas.
Also want to know if Google Transit has some traffic forecasting
feature? Or is it going to be implemented in the nearest future?

Regards to all.

On Jan 9, 4:57 pm, "Joe Hughes" <joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rabi,
>
> You're in luck! DART is one of the agencies that's taken the lead in
> making its raw schedule data available to the public for developers
> like you to use; the DART feed is available here:http://www.dart.org/transitdata/
>
> The data is in GTFS format, which is specified here:http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html
>
> If you're a Python or Java developer, there are some libraries for
> working with this data format in the GoogleTransitDataFeed open-source
> project:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/
>
> As an aside, I'm happy to report that Sacramento RT and Orange County
> Transportation Authority recently joined the set of agencies that are
> making their feeds available for developer use:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds
>
> Hope this helps,
> Joe
>