gtfs-kit

GTFS Kit

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GTFS Kit is a Python library for analyzing General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTFS>_ data in memory without a database. It uses Pandas and GeoPandas to do the heavy lifting.

Installation

Install it from PyPI with UV, say, via uv add gtfs_kit.

Examples

In the Jupyter notebook notebooks/examples.ipynb.

Authors

• Alex Raichev (2019-09), maintainer

Documentation

The documentation is built via Sphinx from the source code in the docs directory then published to Github Pages at mrcagney.github.io/gtfs_kit_docs <https://mrcagney.github.io/gtfs_kit_docs>_.

Notes

• This project's development status is Alpha. I use GTFS Kit for work and change it breakingly to suit my needs.
• This project uses semantic versioning.
• I aim for GTFS Kit to handle the current GTFS <https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference>. In particular, i avoid handling GTFS extensions <https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference/gtfs-extensions>. That is the most reasonable scope boundary i can draw at present, given this project's tiny budget. If you would like to fund me to expand that scope, feel free to email me.
• Thanks to MRCagney <http://www.mrcagney.com/>_ for periodically donating to this project.
• Constructive feedback and contributions are welcome. Please issue pull requests from a feature branch into the develop branch and include tests.
• GTFS time is measured relative noon minus 12 hours, which can mess things up when crossing into daylight savings time. I don't think this issue causes any bugs in GTFS Kit, but you and i have been warned. Thanks to user derhuerst for bringing this to my attention in closed Issue 8 <https://github.com/mrcagney/gtfs_kit/issues/8#issue-1063633457>_.
• I'll probably remove the GTFS validation module validators.py to avoid duplicating the work of what is now the canonical feed validator <https://github.com/MobilityData/gtfs-validator>_ (written in Java).