Re: Pickup/Dropoff Types in Google Transit - Joe Hughes - com.googlegroups.googletransit

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Devin Braun	28 Apr 2008 14:30
Devin Braun	30 Apr 2008 08:11
Joe Hughes	30 Apr 2008 17:46

Subject:	Re: Pickup/Dropoff Types in Google Transit
From:	Joe Hughes (joe....@gmail.com)
Date:	04/30/2008 05:46:32 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.googletransit

Devin,

Thanks for clarifying that--I agree that support for types 2 and 3 would be useful for situations like yours, and it's something we plan to add in the future.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Devin Braun <Devi...@sdmts.com> wrote:

I should have been more clear that I was referring specifically to types 2 and 3 for pickup type and dropoff type. For example, MTS runs routes in the Rural areas which service some stops on request only as they are deviations off route of up to three miles. Currently, these stops are shown in our feed as regularly scheduled stops, but I'd like to tag them as call ahead stops in our next version, hoping that the stop bubbles will take this information into account sometime in the future.

Thanks,

Devin

________________________________ From: Joe Hughes ' Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:04 AM To: Devin Braun Cc: Google Transit Trip Planner Subject: Re: Pickup/Dropoff Types in Google Transit

The current extent of that field's use in Google Maps is to determine whether the rider can board and/or alight at that point in the trip. This is mainly useful in certain express services that have pickup-only or dropoff-only stops. This should be manifested correctly in the transit directions and the clickable stop bubbles. To be clear, values 2 and 3 ("call agency/coordinate with driver") currently have no effect in Google Maps. Do you have a particular use case in mind, Devin?

Joe

2008/4/28 Devin Braun <devin.braun@sd ... >:

Does Google Transit currently take into account the Pickup/Dropoff Types in stop_times.txt? If so, does anybody have an example itinerary showing how it's used and displayed to passengers?

If it isn't currently used, are there plans to implement it? If so, I can provide testing data for the field.

Thanks,