{"id":23,"date":"2015-06-03T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T03:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:26:12","slug":"gtfs-realtime-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/gtfs-realtime-status\/","title":{"rendered":"GTFS RealTime Status News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today (Wed, 3 June 2015)there has been a flurry of news articles about GTFS Realtime Status.<\/p>\n

Why? Well, because yesterday in the Google Map’s Blog,\u00a0 Karen Grunberg the Technical Program Manager from Google Transit announced that they are\u00a0adding 25+ new location for\u00a0real-time transit info across six places: U.K., Netherlands, Budapest, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle. \u00a0She goes on to say “This real-time transit info will let you see live arrivals for buses, metros and subway systems\u2014and even alert you to cancelled routes\u2014so you can better navigate the intricate and unpredictable world of transit in major cities around the world.”<\/p>\n

Here’s the link to her blog post (http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com.au\/2015\/06\/mind-gapp-for-real-time-transit.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan follows on in an article on Gizmodo (http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/google-just-made-it-easier-to-see-exactly-how-late-your-1708532452<\/a>) with\u00a0a couple of nice\u00a0screen shots\u00a0showing\u00a0how a 4 minute delay for \u00a0bus trip\u00a0would be displayed.<\/p>\n

So in you’re not online yet, how do you get your cities real-time data online? \u00a0Well, in Seattle’s case it helped that Brian Ferris, the developer of the widely used OneBusAway app, was hired by Google (http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2015\/onebusaway-creator-brings-seattles-real-time-transit-data-to-google-maps\/<\/a>). \u00a0But for everyone else the best way is to create a GTFS real-time transit feed. \u00a0GTFS is the acronym for\u00a0General Transit Feed Specification, the international standard for displaying schedule and other transit information.<\/p>\n

If you want to know more about \u00a0how to create\u00a0GTFS realtime status<\/a> or how to track a vehicles location using GTFS<\/a>, just contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One final comment: It seems like forever to get to this many cities with realtime data, but\u00a0in reality Google only launched their realtime transit status service in 2011, only four short years ago (http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com.au\/2011\/06\/know-when-your-bus-is-late-with-live.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Have a great day!<\/p>\n

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