# SEPTASTIC

A fantastic way to ride SEPTA.

This is a (hastily written) rust program that provides schedule information and 
live information for gtfs data feeds (though is specifically tailored to SEPTA).

## Roadmap 

- [] implement gtfs-rt instead of SEPTA's proprietary API
- [] implement routing 
- [] implement a map to show location of vehicles
- [] implement support for connecting legs of a Regional Rail trip
- [] work on providing a better experience with non-SEPTA gtfs files
- [] simple account system to save info such as work commute/fav routes
- [] parse gtfs data ourselves instead of using library
- [] support more of the gtfs specification

## Building

The build system for this isn't extremely straightforward. I have a shell.nix that 
contains some shell utils specific to this project, but don't have a flake setup 
that would allow you to easily build. If you have a newer rust toolchain installed, 
you should be able to run this with Cargo.

I also provide a Dockerfile you can use as the base for a dev container.

## Running 

There's a config file in this repository that has a format for specifying GTFS 
file locations as well as 'annotations' to those files to enrich them. Currently, 
the following annotations exist:

- **multiplatform_stops:** used to combine multiple stops into one stop as though 
each 'sub-stop' is it's own platform. This is useful for when a transit authority 
(specifically one in southeastern PA) does not provide [stop_areas.txt](https://gtfs.org/documentation/schedule/reference/#stop_areastxt).

```yaml
- id: 'WTC'
  name: 'Wissahickon Transit Center'
  platform_station_ids:
    - 'SEPTABUS_2'
    - 'SEPTABUS_31032'
    - 'SEPTABUS_32980'
    - 'SEPTABUS_32988'
    - 'SEPTABUS_32989'
    - 'SEPTABUS_32990'
    - 'SEPTABUS_32992'
    - 'SEPTABUS_32993'
    - 'SEPTARAIL_90220'
```

This project uses postgres (via sqlx) to store an archive of realtime data, though 
it is not required to run SEPTASTIC (all transit data is stored in-memory).

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I have an instance of this running at [septastic.net](https://septastic.net), 
feel free to check it out.