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= Transit Table Examples =

== Authors ==

* Tantek Çelik

== Acknowledgment ==

Thanks to Kevin Marks for suggesting this need for a microformat on the microformats-discuss list and providing the Caltrain example.

http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-October/001595.html

== 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

=== New Jersey Transit ===

Rail Schedule Interface (results include transfer info + rates):
http://www.njtransit.com/sf_tr_schedules.shtml

Bus Schedules:
http://www.njtransit.com/sf_bu_town2town.jsp?Center=Town

=== MTA (NYC) subways, trains, buses ===
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/

LIRR Train Interface:
http://lirr42.mta.info/index.asp

Metro North Train Interface (includes peak/offpeak info, travel durations)
http://as0.mta.info/mnr/schedules/sched_form.cfm

== 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.