During hackathon at open Summer of code 2015, we made the first steps of generating GTFS-files and GTFS-RealTime feed of the NMBS. Third-party applications can easily integrate this open data of the Belgian railway company into their applications.

1. NMBS: Open Data
@brechtvdv
@timtijssens

2. What's the problem?

3. No traindata from the NMBS available!

4. G
T
F
S
R
T
General
Transit
Feed
Specification
Real
Time

5. Mission hackathon
Scrape calendars!
Workflow GTFS-RealTime

6. Scraping - Workflow

7. We - Fr, 15. Dec 2014 until 6. Jan 2015 Mo - We, Fr
15. Dec 2014 until 6. Jan 2015 Mo - We, Fr;
27. Apr until 29. May 2015 Mo - Fr; 8. Jun
until 4. Sep 2015 Mo - Fr
IC123
L123: drives every week

8. Future tasks
Scraping - Workflow
• Generate calendar_dates.txt
• Generate stop_times.txt
• Final: trips.txt

9. What if ?
Scraping - Workflow

10. GTFS-RealTime
Scraping - Workflow

11. Future tasks
Scraping - Workflow
• Generate Models
• Scrape the realtime Information
• Output in open and standardised data form

12. Possibilities
Scraping - Workflow
• Easy Acces to the data
• Realtime Train Map
• Output in open and standardised data form

13. Q&A
@brechtvdv
@timtijssens