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== Acknowledgment ==
== Acknowledgment ==


Thanks to Kevin Marks for suggesting this need for a microformat on the microformats-discuss list (needslink) and providing the Caltrain example.
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 Statement ==
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http://caltrain.com/timetable_effective_10_10_05.html
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
=== Google Transit Feeds ===
http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html
== 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.

Latest revision as of 19:19, 3 January 2009

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

Google Transit Feeds

http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

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.