DublinRTPI

Real-time Passenger Information for Dublin city’s public transport.

Code to retrieve real time information about Dublin Bus, Luad, and Dart services. Allows the aggregation of multiple bus stops.

Shiny App

The code located in ShinyApp is an interactive app which will retrieve and display information about the bus and train services in Dublin.

A live version of the app should be running at https://aboland.shinyapps.io/DublinTransport/

Custom URL

A custom url can be used to pre-load the application with your choices of stops and buses. This can be bookmarked to save time.
Example: http://aboland.shinyapps.io:/DublinTransport/?stops=334,336&routes=14,140

Run Locally

The Shiny app can be run locally from within R or R Studio. The shiny library must be installed.

# install.packages("shiny")
shiny::runGitHub("aboland/DublinRTPI", subdir = "ShinyApp")

Other Dependencies

The app also relies on the following packages, dplyr, stringr, XML, and rvest.

R Package

The code located in Rlib contains an R package named dublinRTPI. This can be installed using the devtools package.

The package contains functions to retrieve live info for Dart and Dublin Bus. A light version of the main shiny app is also included in the package.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aboland/DublinRTPI", subdir = "Rlib")

 # Get info about bus stop number 334
dublinRTPI::db_info(334)

 # Run shiny app
dublinRTPI::runShiny()