changing frequencies for different sections of a route

[Nikhil VJ]

Hi Folks,

I have timings data for a route like so:

(route is from A to D)

Stretch | Headway (mm:ss)

A to B  | 03:57

B to C  | 02:38

C to D  | 05:16

So this is calculated / estimated time published by the agency to make it more digestible for the passengers. It's not like the route has any hard breaks in the between. 

Some trips start from A and go all the way to D.

One trip may start from A and terminate at C, then passengers have to disembark and wait for the next train to get till D.

Yet another trip may start from B and go to D,

And yet another may only cover B to C stretch.

It's obvious that (C to D) is just half the frequency of (B to C), meaning every other train halts at C instead of going all the way to D.

But I'm not really getting the (A to B) relation with (B to C).

There is a fixed first trip and last trip for the whole route, and we have timings per stop, meaning the both the first and last trains of the day do the full A to D stretch.

So how would one express this in GTFS? Might it be a better idea to just multiply it all into distinct trips and then go shaving trips off to get to the stated frequency?

And related but may not be applicable in this case : Are overlapping frequencies possible in frequencies.txt?

Regards

Nikhil VJ

Pune, India

[Nikhil VJ]

Hi Folks,

I just realized my (A to B) section's headway was 1 and a half times (C to D) !

So for every 6 trips made in (B to C) stretch,

There's 4 trips happening in (A to B),

and 3 trips happening in (C to D).

I'm just going to assume for now that every 3rd trip of (A to B) is being docked just as every 2nd trip of (C to D) is,

Or in other words, pattern:

T1 : A to D

T2 : A to C

T3 : B to D

T4 : A to C

T5 : A to D

T6 : B to C

... and so on.

So computationally the way to go about this would be:

1. Define all trips as A to D, using the most frequent section's headway (B to C)

2. Trim off every second trip's last stops (C to D)

3. Trim off every third trip's first stops (A to B)

Hope this works!

Math test prep days coming flooding back :)

Regards

Nikhil VJ

Pune, India