4 messages in com.googlegroups.googletransitRe: departure and arrival times
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Rabi09 Jan 2008 16:39 
Joe Hughes09 Jan 2008 16:57 
Rabi10 Jan 2008 20:45 
fowe12 Jan 2008 21:00 
Subject:Re: departure and arrival times
From:Rabi (youg@gmail.com)
Date:01/10/2008 08:45:13 PM
List:com.googlegroups.googletransit

Dear Joe, Thank you so much for your reply. I was aware of the feeds from DART. My problem is the information they make available in the website is updated as a zip file and there is no way to check the most recent feeds. Since I don't have a server, I can't host the route information. This application I am focusing is a flash Actionscript 2.0. (or perhaps 3.0 soon...). I was looking for an asp or something which can help me get the total number of routes... and when I query a specific route, it would give me further details about it.

Since there should be a mechanism to query the routes with google transit, I was wondering if that same query could be used with my application. Like may be calling a method or a function to retrieve details.

I again appreciate your suggestions. Thank you, Rabi

On Jan 9, 6:57 pm, "Joe Hughes" <joe.@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Rabi,

You're in luck! DART is one of the agencies that's taken the lead in making its raw schedule data available to the public for developers like you to use; the DART feed is available
here:http://www.dart.org/transitdata/

The data is in GTFS format, which is specified
here:http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

If you're a Python or Java developer, there are some libraries for working with this data format in the GoogleTransitDataFeed open-source project:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/

As an aside, I'm happy to report that Sacramento RT and Orange County Transportation Authority recently joined the set of agencies that are making their feeds available for developer
use:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds

Hope this helps, Joe

On Jan 9, 2008 4:40 PM, Rabi <youg@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All, I don't know where to post this so I am posting it here. I use DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit). My trip requires me to transfer at various stations. Due to variation in schedule and traffic condition, I find myself waiting more than 15 mins at times.

I am thinking of making an application which can display route timings for a specified route only. This can run in a mobile phone and alert me about the next bus schedule. I want some help. Is there a way I can query for route information using google transit website? As simple as how many routes are there in DART system. Then we can select the desired route and get information about schedule and other details.

Please suggest if there are things like that already existing. At least if I could find a method to retrieve route numbers and schedule would be great.

Thanks.