transit-table-examples
Transit Table Examples
Authors
- Tantek Çelik
Acknowledgment
Thanks to Kevin Marks for suggesting this need for a microformat on the microformats-discuss list (needslink) and providing the Caltrain example.
Problem Statement
Problem: how to markup transit tables for trains / light-rail etc. in such a way that aggregation and navigation of schedules across varying transit systems becomes possible.
Examples
Caltrain
http://caltrain.com/timetable_effective_10_10_05.html
TTC (Subways, Buses, Light and Electric Rail)
Interface: http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/schedules/index.htm
Note the horrifying frame and pulldown based interface.
Schedule page: http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/schedules/61S.htm#AVENUE%20RD.%20at%20WILSON
Air Canada (Airline)
http://www.aircanada.com/aco/flights.do
This is fairly typical of many airlines -- a form-based query is needed to get to the interesting stuff.
Go Transit (Trains and Buses)
Interface: http://www.gotransit.com/PUBLICROOT/NewVersion/lstNser.asp
Schedule page: http://www.gotransit.com/PUBLICROOT/NewVersion/pubnsch.asp?table=01&direction=0&day=1&page=1
Future Thoughts
This probably belongs more in a transit-table-brainstorming page, but until more examples are fleshed out and previous formats are researched, we're sticking future thoughts here.
Tufte Transit Graph
An application that read a standard transit-table microformat and produced a Tuftesque timeline grid would be very nice for transit users.