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 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 RD. at WILSON
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