[Open-transport] Coverage of GTFS-RT feeds in the world

Fri Oct 14 13:44:39 UTC 2016

On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Christophe Duquesne-Aurige wrote:

> Another point is that GTFS-RT is a line-centric service, very efficiently de
> signed and optimized for global back-office exchange, but it doesn't provide
>  a stop-centric REST API for end users as SIRI does with, for example, Stop 
> Monitoring (where you can request something like the next 3 passing times fo
> r each line at a stop).

You are now comparing SIRI-SM. While GTFS-RT tripUpdates would compare to 
SIRI-ET, and vehiclePositions obviously to SIRI-VM.

...it is all about finding the right serialisation. And standardising on 
presentation views is pretty stupid ;) So we need backend standardisation 
first.

Stefan