[LINK] ACTION Bus Timetables

Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxious at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 09:21:41 AEDT 2010


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Tom Worthington
<tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> Roger Clarke wrote:
>> The design of web-sites to support public transport could be argued
>> to be within the link list's scope. ...
> Hopefully a transport planner is in the works.

People have been lobbying ACTION to release the Google Transit Feed
Specification file for their network since 2008[1], again in June
2009[2] when Google said they were going to release it within a month
[3]. The software used by ACTION [4] in it's most recent versions
provides a one step GTFS export option[5] although it seems to be
possible to manually convert previous release files (maybe this is
where they are stuck?)[6]. The GTFS format has been adapted by the
open source community to provide user-customisable timetables[7] and
of course transit planners[8].


1: http://the-riotact.com/?p=9922
2: http://the-riotact.com/?p=13459
3: http://google-au.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-australia-opens-doors-to-our-new.html
4: http://www.audit.act.gov.au/auditreports/reports2010/Final%20ACTION%20report%20for%20website%2026%20Aug.pdf
Page 20 explains ACTION IT systems and the lack of a governance
framework for ICT
5: http://www.giro.ca/docs/public/pdf/press/en/GIRO-MKT-GIRO-COMM-NEWSE(2006)-20080111.pdf
6: http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers/msg/8d482502ff678afb
7: http://code.google.com/p/timetablepublisher/
8: http://opentripplanner.org/



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