[Open-transport] GTFS feeds for The Netherlands

Tue Jan 21 16:47:42 UTC 2014

Haha!  I think the best is to ask Christian Villum (in cc)

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 2014-01-21 17:22, Thomas wrote:
> We've added the feed to http://datahub.io/organization/opentransport.
> Now would someone be so kind to update http://census.okfn.org/country/ 
> , we Dutchmen really like to one-up Norway ;).
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org 
> <mailto:rufus.pollock at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Thomas,
>
>     This is great: would you be able to add this as a dataset to the
>     Open Transport organization on DataHub:
>
>     http://datahub.io/organization/opentransport
>
>     Please just let Pieter or I know your username and we'll add you
>     and you can then register the dataset.
>
>     Rufus
>
>
>     On 20 January 2014 12:01, Thomas <thomaskoch at gmail.com
>     <mailto:thomaskoch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hello all,
>
>         We would like to announce that we are supplying a GTFS feed
>         with transit data for virtually all bus/metro/train/tram and
>         some ferry services in the Netherlands, it also contains most
>         international connections towards Belgium, France, Germany and
>         the UK. The feed is licensed under CC0 license without tedious
>         constraints about what you can and cannot do with the data.
>         The transit data used is supplied by transit agencies via the
>         legal framework "OpenGeo ND-OV loket", in a transmodel derived
>         format. The transmodel-data is then converted by us in to GTFS.
>         Some technical details: the feed contains shapes for most
>         operators and we've developed a workflow that generate shapes
>         for all rail, tram and metro lines when missing. Currently the
>         stop-locations are directly set by the operator but we're
>         going to switch over to the IFOPT data-set when that becomes
>         available, this will provide a very high quality, maintained
>         stopplace clustering (GTFS: parent stations).
>
>         We're also looking to incorporate fare information, but we're
>         currently constrained by both the unavailability of this data
>         and the lack of suitable structure in GTFS to model the
>         fare-structure in the Netherlands. We're optimistic about the
>         availability of fare information changing and the flexibility
>         of GTFS.
>         The feed also contains transfer information supplied by Dutch
>         railways on specific trip-to-trip transfers, indicating
>         whether a transfer is (im)possible on trip-to-trip detail.
>
>         We're also offering a GTFS-realtime feed, currently under
>         as-is, with tripupdates, vehicle-positions and alerts. The
>         vehicle-positions and trip-updates contain almost all bus and
>         tram lines and the Metro in Rotterdam (Amsterdam is in the
>         works), the only trips not covered are vehicles not equipped
>         with the necessary hardware. Real-time train information will
>         also be available in the future but will likely require some
>         new additions the GTFS-realtime standard such as platform changes.
>
>         The feeds are available here:
>         http://gtfs.ovapi.nl/nl/gtfs-nl.zip
>         http://gtfs.ovapi.nl/nl/alerts.pb
>         http://gtfs.ovapi.nl/nl/vehiclePositions.pb
>         http://gtfs.ovapi.nl/nl/tripUpdates.pb
>
>         Kind regards,
>
>         Thomas Koch
>         OVapi
>
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