PR#355 - Adding Fare Media

[Isabelle de Robert]

We've opened a vote on https://github.com/google/transit/pull/355

There are at least two producers:

• Interline for SF Bay Area Regional (@drewda)
• Cal-ITP (@e-lo)

And at least one consumer:

• Apple Maps

Voting ends on 2023-03-13 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Thanks, 

Isabelle

[Isabelle de Robert]

The voting period ended on 2023-03-13 at 23:59:59 UTC.

With 9 votes in favour and no votes against, the vote to extend GTFS with Fare Media passes! The votes came from:
- Google 
- Moovit 
- ITO World 
- Apple Maps 
- LA Metro 
- Interline 
- Cal-ITP 
- Trillium
- Transcollines 

The GTFS Fares-v2 Google Doc has been updated to reflect this change and also contains additional Fare Media fields that were not part of this Pull Request, mainly:

• the paper_ticket value for fare_media_type
• the fare_media_groups.txt file, which provides a mechanism to model groups of fare media that can each be associated with the same fare product
• a fare_validation_method field

Many thanks to everyone who participated in this Pull Request and in the working group meetings! Your time and dedication have truly made this possible. Thank you all so much for your outstanding contributions!

For those of you who want to stick around, the work continues in PR#357 to add time-variable fares!