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# 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 you want to group
stops together from multiple gtfs sources (i.e. NJT/SEPTA data for Trenton Transit
Center) or wish to combine multiple stops that are nearby into one location for
easier tracking.
```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.