I have a number of students interested in using r5r to do analyses of transit system changes and a significant pain point is always when they want to create a GTFS feed. To my knowledge, there's not an R package that lets you do that easily (if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me), and I'm wondering if gtfstools would be a good place for it. It'd be lovely to be able to do something like this:
empty_gtfs("America/New_York") |>
add_calendar("weekday", "20250101", "20261231", sat = F, sun = F) |>
add_stops(sf_object) |>
add_trip(
route = "1", # route automatically created if it doesn't exist
calendar = "weekday",
tribble(
~stop_id , ~time ,
1 , "10:00:00" ,
2 , "10:05:00" ,
3 , "10:10:00"
),
frequencies = tribble(
~from , ~to , ~headway_secs ,
"06:00:00" , "08:00:00" , 300 ,
"08:00:00" , "16:00:00" , 900 ,
"16:00:00" , "20:00:00" , 300
)
) |>
write_gtfs("new_route.zip")Is this something that seems like a fit for gtfstools, or would it make more sense in a separate package?
I have a number of students interested in using
r5rto do analyses of transit system changes and a significant pain point is always when they want to create a GTFS feed. To my knowledge, there's not an R package that lets you do that easily (if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me), and I'm wondering if gtfstools would be a good place for it. It'd be lovely to be able to do something like this:Is this something that seems like a fit for gtfstools, or would it make more sense in a separate package?