Farebox
Infrastructure
transit routing engine
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How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Useful open transit routing at continental scale; commenters welcome it
From 3 comments
My day job is OpenTripPlanner work, so I absolutely love to see this. I've long thought about what a RAPTOR engine would look like written in Rust. So cool that you've done it.…
danielhep on HNLove it
DennisL123 on HNLove this. I really enjoy seeing people build tooling and infrastructure around public transit. [edit] As someone who reads and writes (and reviews) a ton of writing and…
arcticbull on HN
Interest in a Rust routing engine small enough for phones
From 2 comments
My day job is OpenTripPlanner work, so I absolutely love to see this. I've long thought about what a RAPTOR engine would look like written in Rust. So cool that you've done it.…
danielhep on HNIt's after midnight here so take this with a grain of salt but the generated timetable for the puget sound is taking up about 40 MiB on-disk and the server process is using 100k…
ellenhp on HN
Objections
Routes are missing or wrong, e.g. Berlin to Barcelona shows a bus and return trips fail
From 3 comments
This is very cool. But, bus from New York to St Louis and then backtrack on Amtrak. Ouch. I know the train options from NYP to CHI are slow, but I didn’t think they’re that slow…
epcoa on HNYeah, Deutsche Bahn can find a route from Berlin Jannowitzbrücke to Barcelona Sants that takes less than 20 hours (as opposed to 2 days)…
yorwba on HNYeah I strongly suspect that there's something in the GTFS spec that I'm missing that's resulting in some vehicle journeys not being added to the timetable. This would also…
ellenhp on HN
Empty results for some coordinates
From 1 comment
So, how do I add a new public transport route (so it can be indexed in Farebox)? I tried entering some coordinates as input, but it returned an empty array instead. I’m wondering…
altilunium on HN
Requests
Share with the OpenTripPlanner community
From 1 comment
My day job is OpenTripPlanner work, so I absolutely love to see this. I've long thought about what a RAPTOR engine would look like written in Rust. So cool that you've done it.…
danielhep on HN
Better writing feedback on the blog post
From 1 comment
Questions
Where do feeds come from and how to add a new route
From 2 comments
Where do you get your feeds from? In my experience finding good feeds is the hardest part of working on these projects
miniBill on HNSo, how do I add a new public transport route (so it can be indexed in Farebox)? I tried entering some coordinates as input, but it returned an empty array instead. I’m wondering…
altilunium on HN
Whether CSA algorithm was considered over RAPTOR
From 1 comment
Hello, Great work :) Nice to see alternatives poping up. There used to be navitia https://github.com/hove-io/navitia/ but its company is slowing closing thing, so I would not bet…
tristramg on HN
Alternatives named
MOTIS/Transitous
From 1 comment
OpenTripPlanner
From 1 comment
My day job is OpenTripPlanner work, so I absolutely love to see this. I've long thought about what a RAPTOR engine would look like written in Rust. So cool that you've done it.…
danielhep on HN
Navitia
From 1 comment
Hello, Great work :) Nice to see alternatives poping up. There used to be navitia https://github.com/hove-io/navitia/ but its company is slowing closing thing, so I would not bet…
tristramg on HN
GraphHopper GTFS
From 1 comment
> because last I checked it only works for a single GTFS feed. (minor) fyi: It works with multiple, comma separated GTFS files.
karussell on HN