Proposal: agency_fare_url

[Brian Ferris]

Original discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/gtfs-changes/t/bc3dfef39e441b4b

Summary of proposal:

The addition to the agency.txt section of the GTFS spec:

agency_ticket_url (optional):

The agency_ticket_url specifies the URL of a web page that allows a
rider to purchase tickets or other fare instruments for that agency
online.  The value must be a fully qualified URL that includes http://
or https://, and any special characters in the URL must be correctly
escaped. See http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html
for a description of how to create fully qualified URL values.

Initial implementation from a GTFS producer and consumer:

Producers: Over 8% of the feeds in the current Google Transit corpus
define an agency_fare_url field.
Consumers: The field is validated in the googletransit extension of
the feed validator and used in the Google Transit  product.
Status: Prime candidate for acceptance.

Unless there are objections in the next week (Sept 6), we will
formally add this proposal to the GTFS spec.

Thanks,
Brian

[Brian Ferris]

Seeing no objects, I'm making this one official.

Thanks,
Brian

[Brian Ferris]

Objects => objections. Maybe I've been coding too much... ; )

[MVTA Users]

Not to seem too obtuse, but when these are made official where are
they formally published? Is it http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html
or somewhere else? Just want to make sure I know where to keep track
of the current official info.

Thanks,

Mike

Michael Abegg, Transit Planning Mgr
Minnesota Valley Transit Authority
100 Hwy 13 E
Burnsville, MN 55337
952-882-7502
mab...@mvta.com

On Sep 6, 1:48 am, Brian Ferris <bdfer...@google.com> wrote:
> Seeing no objects, I'm making this one official.
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> Thanks,
> Brian
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Brian Ferris <bdfer...@google.com> wrote:
> > Original discussion:
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> >http://groups.google.com/group/gtfs-changes/t/bc3dfef39e441b4b
>
> > Summary of proposal:
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> > The addition to the agency.txt section of the GTFS spec:
>
> > agency_ticket_url (optional):
>
> > The agency_ticket_url specifies the URL of a web page that allows a
> > rider to purchase tickets or other fare instruments for that agency
> > online.  The value must be a fully qualified URL that includes http://
> > or https://, and any special characters in the URL must be correctly

> > escaped. Seehttp://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html

[Brian Ferris]

Yeah, I actually pushed a change to the document on Tuesday, but there
is some mix-up with ownership of the file (I'm new here), so it still
hasn't been made public yet.

Thanks,
Brian

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[Brian Ferris]

The 'agency_fare_url' and 'exact_times' proposal have officially been
incorporated on the GTFS spec page:

http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

I apologize the update took so long, but we've sorted out some issues
that should make the process smoother next time around.

Thanks,
Brian

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM, MVTA Users <mvt...@gmail.com> wrote: