List of GTFS realtime suppliers

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@makar

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Feb 19, 2013, 2:06:45 PM2/19/13
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Does anyone know some open list of agencies that provide GTFS realtime data feeds?
Is there any common place where all agencies publish their GTFS realtime URLs?

Joachim Pfeiffer

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Mar 11, 2013, 10:07:01 AM3/11/13
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Third.
I suspect however there's nothing to list, because agencies that have implemented GTFS-realtime offer the data to Google only? Somebody proof me wrong.
I'd be more than happy to add the feeds to the list of public real time feeds (here) I maintain, or start a new list dedicated to GTFS-realtime.
JP


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Andy Stuntz <ast...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd also like to know this!  Any leads?


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Does anyone know some open list of agencies that provide GTFS realtime data feeds?
Is there any common place where all agencies publish their GTFS realtime URLs?

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Barker, David

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The MBTA publishes its GTFS-realtime bus prediction and location feeds for developers:

 

http://www.mbta.com/developers/

 

-Dave

 

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Sean Barbeau

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At CUTR we have a Google Doc list that we've used internally to track GTFS and GTFS-realtime feeds as we come across them.  Its publicly viewable:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao5FqvrcvPEodDRBNnU5TnlqWmNPTnc0NThJMXljZmc&usp=sharing

GTFS-realtime columns start at "J".  We have six agencies in the list right now with GTFS-realtime feeds.

If anyone else wants to help maintain the list I'd be happy to give you write access, just email me offlist.

Sean

Sean Barbeau, Ph.D.
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South Florida
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Tom Colacioppo

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The MTA publishes it to the mta.info developers site for the NYCT subway number lines.  Hope this helps

@makar

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Interesting information about different sources, thanks
Need to analyse it

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Joa

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Thanks for the posts as well. Tip of the hat to Sean for maintaining
the by-agency list.
The one agency that is listed and does not seem to provide GTFS-
realtime or next bus times in any form seems to be King County Metro.
I still have them listed with a (age old) link to a University of
Washington page. Is there some updated info available for Metro?

Ethan Arutunian

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They want everyone to use the One Bus Away API. I've been trying to get
GTFS-RT out of them for ages (which apparently exists), but they don't
want to provide it. This is problematic for us because we have to hit
the OBA API hundreds of times to get the same info that is in the single
GTFS-RT proto file.

If a few folks on this group would send a similar request to
"PublicRequest...@kingcounty.gov" we might finally get it!

-ethan

On 3/16/13 1:27 PM, Joa wrote:
> Thanks for the posts as well. Tip of the hat to Sean for maintaining
> the by-agency list.
> The one agency that is listed and does not seem to provide GTFS-
> realtime or next bus times in any form seems to be King County Metro.
> I still have them listed with a (age old) link to a University of
> Washington page. Is there some updated info available for Metro?
>
> On Mar 14, 1:05 pm, "@makar" <evgeni.maka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting information about different sources, thanks
>> Need to analyse it
>>
>> О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫, 19 О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ 2013 О©╫., 22:06:45 UTC+3 О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ @makar О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫:

Brian Ferris

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KCM definitely has a GTFS-realtime feed, as I implemented it for them about two years ago.  Much to my chagrin, they are still only sharing it with UW/OneBusAway Puget Sound, despite my best efforts to convince them to open it up.  Definitely let them know that you'd like to see the feed shared with developers if it's something you would use.


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Ethan Arutunian <et...@roadify.com> wrote:

They want everyone to use the One Bus Away API. I've been trying to get GTFS-RT out of them for ages (which apparently exists), but they don't want to provide it. This is problematic for us because we have to hit the OBA API hundreds of times to get the same info that is in the single GTFS-RT proto file.

If a few folks on this group would send a similar request to "PublicRequests.TransitData@kingcounty.gov" we might finally get it!

-ethan


On 3/16/13 1:27 PM, Joa wrote:
Thanks for the posts as well. Tip of the hat to Sean for maintaining
the by-agency list.
The one agency that is listed and does not seem to provide GTFS-
realtime or next bus times in any form seems to be King County Metro.
I still have them listed with a (age old) link to a University of
Washington page. Is there some updated info available for Metro?

On Mar 14, 1:05 pm, "@makar" <evgeni.maka...@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting information about different sources, thanks
Need to analyse it

вторник, 19 февраля 2013 г., 22:06:45 UTC+3 пользователь @makar написал:









Does anyone know some open list of agencies that provide GTFS realtime
data feeds?
Is there any common place where all agencies publish their GTFS realtime
URLs?
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Juan Matute

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Many of you who work at or with agencies may have something to contribute to TransitWiki's Real-time information page (or create new subpages).  The goal of the Wiki is to accelerate the dissemination of best practices in California, which doesn't exclude those from other places from using and contributing.  Registration and email confirmation are required to edit (this is a state government-funded Wiki, after all)

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Sean Barbeau

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Thanks Joa, I updated the status of King County Metro GTFS-realtime feed in the Notes section of that record.

Ethan,
Brian recently added the ability to export a GTFS-realtime feed from the OneBusAway api-webapp:
https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules/pull/52

This should allow any agency using OBA to export a GTFS-realtime feed (assuming they run version of OBA that includes this patch).  Its nice that its bundled with the api-webapp, since this largely nullifies any scalability counter-argument against sharing a GTFS-realtime feed. In other words, if the OBA REST API is built to scale with a large amount of developer requests (already proven with OBA in Puget Sound, with the OBA mobile apps), since GTFS-realtime is hosted in the same server instance it should also scale.  I imagine KCM's concern is that the GTFS-realtime feed is a separate application that powers only OBA (i.e., hasn't been tested to scale), and if that feed goes down due to large demand it would kill OBA, which has direct customer-facing implications.

Note that there will be a slight delay in real-time data vs. accessing the source GTFS-realtime feed directly, based on the OBA update frequency from the source GTFS-realtime feed.

Sean


On Monday, March 18, 2013 12:43:22 PM UTC-4, Juan wrote:
Many of you who work at or with agencies may have something to contribute to TransitWiki's Real-time information page (or create new subpages).  The goal of the Wiki is to accelerate the dissemination of best practices in California, which doesn't exclude those from other places from using and contributing.  Registration and email confirmation are required to edit (this is a state government-funded Wiki, after all)

Juan Matute
UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Brian Ferris <bdfe...@google.com> wrote:
KCM definitely has a GTFS-realtime feed, as I implemented it for them about two years ago.  Much to my chagrin, they are still only sharing it with UW/OneBusAway Puget Sound, despite my best efforts to convince them to open it up.  Definitely let them know that you'd like to see the feed shared with developers if it's something you would use.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Ethan Arutunian <et...@roadify.com> wrote:

They want everyone to use the One Bus Away API. I've been trying to get GTFS-RT out of them for ages (which apparently exists), but they don't want to provide it. This is problematic for us because we have to hit the OBA API hundreds of times to get the same info that is in the single GTFS-RT proto file.

If a few folks on this group would send a similar request to "PublicRequest...@kingcounty.gov" we might finally get it!

-ethan


On 3/16/13 1:27 PM, Joa wrote:
Thanks for the posts as well. Tip of the hat to Sean for maintaining
the by-agency list.
The one agency that is listed and does not seem to provide GTFS-
realtime or next bus times in any form seems to be King County Metro.
I still have them listed with a (age old) link to a University of
Washington page. Is there some updated info available for Metro?

On Mar 14, 1:05 pm, "@makar" <evgeni.maka...@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting information about different sources, thanks
Need to analyse it

вторник, 19 февраля 2013 г., 22:06:45 UTC+3 пользователь @makar написал:









Does anyone know some open list of agencies that provide GTFS realtime
data feeds?
Is there any common place where all agencies publish their GTFS realtime
URLs?

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Ethan Arutunian

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Mar 26, 2013, 3:51:39 PM3/26/13
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Wow, this is awesome!

So will this update automatically take affect with the existing instance of OBA that serves KC Metro?

Thanks for making this available!

-ethan


On 3/26/13 7:38 AM, Sean Barbeau wrote:
Thanks Joa, I updated the status of King County Metro GTFS-realtime feed in the Notes section of that record.

Ethan,
Brian recently added the ability to export a GTFS-realtime feed from the OneBusAway api-webapp:
https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules/pull/52

This should allow any agency using OBA to export a GTFS-realtime feed (assuming they run version of OBA that includes this patch).О©╫ Its nice that its bundled with the api-webapp, since this largely nullifies any scalability counter-argument against sharing a GTFS-realtime feed. In other words, if the OBA REST API is built to scale with a large amount of developer requests (already proven with OBA in Puget Sound, with the OBA mobile apps), since GTFS-realtime is hosted in the same server instance it should also scale.О©╫ I imagine KCM's concern is that the GTFS-realtime feed is a separate application that powers only OBA (i.e., hasn't been tested to scale), and if that feed goes down due to large demand it would kill OBA, which has direct customer-facing implications.


Note that there will be a slight delay in real-time data vs. accessing the source GTFS-realtime feed directly, based on the OBA update frequency from the source GTFS-realtime feed.

Sean

On Monday, March 18, 2013 12:43:22 PM UTC-4, Juan wrote:
Many of you who work at or with agencies may have something to contribute to TransitWiki's Real-time information page (or create new subpages). О©╫The goal of the Wiki is to accelerate the dissemination of best practices in California, which doesn't exclude those from other places from using and contributing. О©╫Registration and email confirmation are required to edit (this is a state government-funded Wiki, after all)

Juan Matute
UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Brian Ferris <bdfe...@google.com> wrote:
KCM definitely has a GTFS-realtime feed, as I implemented it for them about two years ago. О©╫Much to my chagrin, they are still only sharing it with UW/OneBusAway Puget Sound, despite my best efforts to convince them to open it up. О©╫Definitely let them know that you'd like to see the feed shared with developers if it's something you would use.


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Ethan Arutunian <et...@roadify.com> wrote:

They want everyone to use the One Bus Away API. I've been trying to get GTFS-RT out of them for ages (which apparently exists), but they don't want to provide it. This is problematic for us because we have to hit the OBA API hundreds of times to get the same info that is in the single GTFS-RT proto file.

If a few folks on this group would send a similar request to "PublicRequest...@kingcounty.gov" we might finally get it!

-ethan


On 3/16/13 1:27 PM, Joa wrote:
Thanks for the posts as well. Tip of the hat to Sean for maintaining
the by-agency list.
The one agency that is listed and does not seem to provide GTFS-
realtime or next bus times in any form seems to be King County Metro.
I still have them listed with a (age old) link to a University of
Washington page. Is there some updated info available for Metro?

On Mar 14, 1:05 pm, "@makar" <evgeni.maka...@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting information about different sources, thanks
Need to analyse it

О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫, 19 О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ 2013 О©╫., 22:06:45 UTC+3 О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫ @makar О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫О©╫:









Does anyone know some open list of agencies that provide GTFS realtime
data feeds?
Is there any common place where all agencies publish their GTFS realtime
URLs?

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Barbeau, Sean

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No, OBA admins/developers for Puget Sound will need to recompile the application based on the newest source code and redeploy it. 

 

I know UW is in the process of transferring some of the infrastructure for OBA to Sound Transit.  Some code changes need to be made in the very near future (e.g., Google Maps API v2 deprecation on May 20th), so I would imagine that if they are doing other code changes this patch would be included.  But, you’d need to ask them directly to get an answer.

 

Sean

 

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Wow, this is awesome!

So will this update automatically take affect with the existing instance of OBA that serves KC Metro?

Thanks for making this available!

-ethan

On 3/26/13 7:38 AM, Sean Barbeau wrote:

Thanks Joa, I updated the status of King County Metro GTFS-realtime feed in the Notes section of that record.

Ethan,
Brian recently added the ability to export a GTFS-realtime feed from the OneBusAway api-webapp:
https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules/pull/52

This should allow any agency using OBA to export a GTFS-realtime feed (assuming they run version of OBA that includes this patch).  Its nice that its bundled with the api-webapp, since this largely nullifies any scalability counter-argument against sharing a GTFS-realtime feed. In other words, if the OBA REST API is built to scale with a large amount of developer requests (already proven with OBA in Puget Sound, with the OBA mobile apps), since GTFS-realtime is hosted in the same server instance it should also scale.  I imagine KCM's concern is that the GTFS-realtime feed is a separate application that powers only OBA (i.e., hasn't been tested to scale), and if that feed goes down due to large demand it would kill OBA, which has direct customer-facing implications.



Note that there will be a slight delay in real-time data vs. accessing the source GTFS-realtime feed directly, based on the OBA update frequency from the source GTFS-realtime feed.

Sean

On Monday, March 18, 2013 12:43:22 PM UTC-4, Juan wrote:

Many of you who work at or with agencies may have something to contribute to TransitWiki's Real-time information page (or create new subpages).  The goal of the Wiki is to accelerate the dissemination of best practices in California, which doesn't exclude those from other places from using and contributing.  Registration and email confirmation are required to edit (this is a state government-funded Wiki, after all)

 

Juan Matute

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Manager, TransitWiki.org  

 

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Brian Ferris <bdfe...@google.com> wrote:

KCM definitely has a GTFS-realtime feed, as I implemented it for them about two years ago.  Much to my chagrin, they are still only sharing it with UW/OneBusAway Puget Sound, despite my best efforts to convince them to open it up.  Definitely let them know that you'd like to see the feed shared with developers if it's something you would use.

 

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Ethan Arutunian <et...@roadify.com> wrote:


They want everyone to use the One Bus Away API. I've been trying to get GTFS-RT out of them for ages (which apparently exists), but they don't want to provide it. This is problematic for us because we have to hit the OBA API hundreds of times to get the same info that is in the single GTFS-RT proto file.

If a few folks on this group would send a similar request to "PublicRequest...@kingcounty.gov" we might finally get it!

-ethan



On 3/16/13 1:27 PM, Joa wrote:

Thanks for the posts as well. Tip of the hat to Sean for maintaining
the by-agency list.
The one agency that is listed and does not seem to provide GTFS-
realtime or next bus times in any form seems to be King County Metro.
I still have them listed with a (age old) link to a University of
Washington page. Is there some updated info available for Metro?

On Mar 14, 1:05 pm, "@makar" <evgeni.maka...@gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting information about different sources, thanks
Need to analyse it

вторник, 19 февраля 2013 г., 22:06:45 UTC+3 пользователь @makar написал:








Does anyone know some open list of agencies that provide GTFS realtime
data feeds?
Is there any common place where all agencies publish their GTFS realtime
URLs?


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Quentin Zervaas

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I'm compiling a list of feeds on my new site transitfeeds.com

Here's my current list of GTFS-RealTime feeds - there's 15 public feeds on there so far:

http://transitfeeds.com/search?q=gtfsrt

Hope this helps! Would love to hear feedback on the site if you get a chance

Juan Matute

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Quentin,

Great resource!  It's something agencies considering their real-time and static strategies will look to to see what others are doing. I added it to TransitWiki's GTFS article. 


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Sheraz Butt

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Hi guys,
 
I really appreciate all the information being shared on GTFS Realtime. I'm new to this and trying to find out at a high level the following:
 
1. What inputs are required to produce a GTFS-Realtime (e.g train/bus number, location, etc).
2. Where to store the information so that Google can poll it for example (mysql db, etc)? 
3. How to actually implement it (hardware and software).
4. Does GTFS-Realtime replace GTFS or complement it?
 
I would appreciate if somebody could enlighten me on this.
 
Many Thanks in advance.

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