bowenwen/transitdatatool

A collection of tools to download real-time transit data and transit-related data.

Transit Data Tool

Data collection tools for transit data.

Features

• Downloaders for Toronto data
  • NextBus AVL Data
  • Open data Toronto road restrictions
  • OpenWeatherMap data for Toronto region (developers should update API key)

Installation from release

• Download release zip, then unzip on your local drive.
• Go to 'TransitDataTool\AppData' folder, this is where all of the data will be downloaded to.
• Modify 'DataDownload-Setting.txt' inside the 'TransitDataTool\AppData' folder. This file indicates the start and end date & time of the data you want to download.
• Run
  • Main GUI: 'TransitDataTool\GUIHost.exe' -> Start Download using this utility program.
  • NextBus file manager: 'TransitDataTool_NextBusFileManager\NextBusFileManager.exe' -> Manage downloaded NextBus XML data.

Installation from source code

Application Data

• Unzip AppData.zip content to the directory of your compiled program (where GUIHost.exe is compiled).
• Modify the start and end date & time in 'DataDownload-Setting.txt'

Dependencies

• Install NuGet Package Manager for MSVC
• Restore NuGet Packages, or install the packages listed in Requirements.md, via the NuGet console

API keys

• Please set up your own API keys for OpenWeatherMap data and change the OpenWeather API Key before compiling
  • 'https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up'

Acknowledgements and Licensing

• This program is open-source under the MIT license term.

Developments and Bugs

• Please report any bugs by posting a new issue.
• Participate in our software development efforts! You are welcome to fork and submit pull requests. If you want to be more involved, such as developing versions of this program for other transit agencies with additional transit-related datasets. Pitch your ideas in the 'Future Developments' issue.

transitdatatool's Issues

add warning message for invalid inputs

add warning message for when start and end date time in the input file provided are in the past.

This is because the real-time data sources cannot return data in the past, this data tool needs to be kept running until after the end date time.

Future Developments

Pitch your ideas here!

Currently, the transit data tool only collects data for the Toronto Transit Commission network. We would like to extend the tool for additional cities and transit agencies.

If you have additional datasets from other cities and agencies, please join us in this development effort. We will start a new project and branch for each new city.

While the data collection tool is currently written in C#, I am open to developing new versions of it in other languages.