[Open-transport] Hafas Raw Data Format to GTFS conversion (Zürich)

Mon May 27 13:18:35 UTC 2013

I'd also be interested in adding a converter to the OneBusAway converter
suite.  Is there a public dump of the Hafas data someplace to play with?

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Thomas <thomaskoch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty busy this week, but i can look into it.
> I've build multiple  GTFS converters for multiple formats, this format
> looks somewhat similar to IFF but seems to be binary?. OpenPlanB worked on
> converting data from the HAFAS CD's but never completed a GTFS converter.
>
> In any case the startpoint is to dump the data into tables and then build
> a series of SQL query's to convert it to GTFS schema.
>
> Kind regards,
> Thomas Koch
>
>
>  On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Stefan Wehrmeyer <
> stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I was recently approached by someone from Zürich interested in GTFS data.
>> It turns out the Hafas Raw Data Format is available but no GTFS data and
>> I couldn't find a conversion tool.
>>
>> The Hafas raw format is a fixed-column text format as described here:
>> http://labs.rejseplanen.dk/files/Data/HafasFormat.pdf
>>
>> It's not that easy to parse and building a converter to GTFS is likely
>> not difficult but time consuming.
>>
>> I found a parser written in C++ that is embedded in another huge project,
>> but it can be a place to start:
>>
>> https://extranet.rcsmobility.com/svn/synthese3/trunk/src/61_data_exchange/HafasFileFormat.cpp
>> (However, it may not be the best place to start)
>>
>> If anyone knows a tool for conversion, please let me know.
>> If you are interested in writing such a tool, I'm glad to help, but it's
>> not something I can put a lot of effort into right now.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stefan
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