[Talk-transit] Bus stops in North America from GTFS data

[Roger Slevin]

Richard

What is available on the national NextBuses service for Oxfordshire is
scheduled departure times - as it is for all stops nationwide.

The Oxontimes site provides real-time information where it is available ...
and I think it offers scheduled times where real-time info is not available.
But it also has another quirk - a bus which is not offering real-time
information on a route which should be doing so (as a result of a technical
failure, perhaps) is not being reported on Oxontimes, as I understand it.  I
think this is the only realtime system in the UK that has taken this view -
everyone else shows scheduled times for buses which, for whatever reason,
are unable to provide realtime information.

C'est la vie!

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Mann [mailto:richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com] 
Sent: 11 June 2010 11:36 AM
To: roger at slevin.plus.com; Public transport/transit/shared taxi related
topics
Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Bus stops in North America from GTFS data

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Roger Slevin <roger at slevin.plus.com>
wrote:
> And whilst Peter Stoner is correct that Oxford is unusual in having two
> different "next departure" services (they do not supply their real time
> information to the national service, so this is only available to the
local
> service) they do use the same stop codes for both - albeit they use the
> numeric version instead of the alpha version of the same code (as
explained
> by Peter Miller's earlier posting).

Oxford info _is_ available on the national service. And via Google Maps.

The Oxontime site seems a bit less clunky to me (except the maps),
having just tried all three, but each to his own.

Richard