Read GTFS feed, fixing integrity errors

Usage

load_feed(
  path,
  store_path = NA,
  create_transfers = TRUE,
  transfer_distance = 300,
  transfer_time = 120,
  transfer_street_routing = FALSE
)

Arguments

path: String. The location of the GTFS zip file. Either local or URL.
store_path: String (Optional). If provided, GTFS feed zip is stored at location. The file is overwritten if it already exists.
create_transfers: Boolean (Default TRUE). When true, generates transfers.txt, aggregating close stops.
transfer_distance: Integer (Default 300). Upper straight-line distance limit in meters for transfers.
transfer_time: Integer (Default 120). Minimum time in seconds for transfers; all values below this will be replaced with this value, particularly all those defining in-place transfers where stop longitudes and latitudes remain identical.
transfer_street_routing: Boolean (Default FALSE). If TRUE, transfer times are calculated by routing throughout the underlying street network (downloaded automatically).

Value

A tidygtfs object.

Details

In addition to loading the GTFS feed, this method validates its integrity and applies the proper corrections if it does not comply with the following validations:

stop_times.txt with empty arrival_time or departure_time, filtering rows that do not comply.
Feeds with missing shapes.txt file, generating it using GTFSwizard::get_shapes().

When generating transfers, those already existing in each GTFS file are kept, extended with new ones computed based on the stops network of the final aggregated version. This computation is executed with gtfsrouter::gtfs_transfer_table(), with the parameters d_limit=transfer_distance, min_transfer_time=transfer_time and network_times=transfer_street_routing. The other parameters are applied the library default values.

Examples