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The transit scheduler is a program which creates schedules for the bus network information provided. This project uses Victoria's BC Transit system data [1][2][3], to output a schedule which passengers can use to effectively plan their travels, and minimize waits and missed connections as much as possible.
These project only implements default Python modules. The project's folder structure is built as follows:
├── apps
│ ├── document_maker.py
│ ├── node.py
│ ├── routes_kml.py
│ ├── schedule_app.py
│ ├── schedule_generator.py
│ └── schedule_output.json
├── bctransit-opendata
│ ├── routes.csv
│ ├── shapes.csv
│ ├── stop_times.csv
│ ├── stops_bctransit.csv
│ ├── trips.csv
├── data
│ ├── buses.csv
│ ├── connections.csv
│ ├── frequency.csv
│ ├── priority.csv
│ ├── routes.csv
│ ├── routes_shape.csv
│ ├── stops.csv
├── TransitGUI
│ ├── src
│ │ ├── **/*.java
│ ├── json-20180130.jar
│ ├── .classpath
│ ├── .gitignore
│ ├── .project
├── LICENSE.md
├── README.md
└── path.kmlapps: Contains the pyython scripts at the core of the program's functions, to generate and optimize route schedules
bctransit-opendata: Contains the downloaded data from BC Transit, which is used to create formatted data for python scripts [1],[2]
data: Contains the formatted data for the python scripts, in a way that reduces the need of data formatting in python scripts
TransitGUI: Contains the Java GUI application that displays generated route schedules to drivers
This program first loads all of the relevant data files from the data directory, and stores it in the schedule_generator class. It then initializes the Schedule_Algorithm class, which organizes each route, generates schedules, and optimizes the schedule to minimize the wait time between each bus trip.
When the routes and stops are first loaded into the Schedule_Algorithm class, it calculates the routes simply based on the frequency each route should run at for each hour of the day, and stores it:
[1] BC Transit, "Open Data", BC Transit, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://bctransit.com/*/footer/open-data. [Accessed: Jul. 22, 2018].
[2] BC Transit, "Our Fleet", BC Transit, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://bctransit.com/*/about/fleet. [Accessed: Jul. 21, 2018].
[3] Canadian Public Transit Discussion Board, "Victoria Regional Transit System", 2018. [Online]. Available: https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Victoria_Regional_Transit_System. [Accessed: Jul. 21, 2018].