What is assess-gtfs?
General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) is a common data format for public transit information. GTFS is a prerequisite for undertaking routing with public transit schedules.
The assess-gtfs Python package helps to reduce barriers to understanding the service distribution within GTFS. More specifically, it enables developers to inspect, clean and process GTFS for more efficient, localised routing analysis.
The History of assess-gtfs
assess-gtfs started out life as a module in the ONS Data Science Campus’ transport_performance package. assess-gtfs is built upon and inspired by the excellent gtfs_kit package. assess-gtfs was needed to process and inspect GTFS data prior to building transport networks with the r5py package. Building valid transit networks with the output of our GTFS processing pipelines has been the primary user requirement during development.
Where do I go now?
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We hope that the open source and public sector communities will collaborate and build on this package. You can find the assess-gtfs source code on GitHub.