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GTFS Fares 2.0: Manage fare change

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Dexterity09 commented

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In GTFS Fare 2.0, What is the best way to handle change of fares that will take effect at a particular date i.e. there will be one set of fares effective before a certain date and new set of fares after a date.

eliasmbd commented

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isabelle-dr commented

@Dexterity09 you can model this using the timeframes.txt file, which was adopted recently and works with calendars.txt.

You can find more about how to model this use case on this gtfs.org page. The MBTA currently has an implementation of fares that vary based on time/day, here is their publicly available dataset.

Let us know if this answers your question!

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