Stops

This documentation is for the deprecated Transitland v1 platform.

Transitland represents each place a person may board or exit a transit vehicle as a Stop. Generally, these are imported from GTFS feeds, but Transitland also allows users to create Stops that are not associated with a Feed.

Stop data model

Each Transitland Stop has a unique onestop_id, such as s-9q9p1bbfkc-lakemerritt; the Onestop ID format includes an s prefix, a geohash encoding the approximate location, and a short identifier.

Basic Stop attributes include name, a simple name for the station that would be used on printed schedules, and timezone for the local timezone. The wheelchair_boarding attribute contains accessibility information: when true, the location is generally wheelchair accessible, when false it is known not to be accessible, and when null the accessibility is not known.

The geometry attribute may be either a single point or a polygon containing the station extent. In either case, the geometry_centroid attribute will always be a point that represents a single location. The centroid is set by 1) the geometry_reversegeo attribute if available 2) geometry if it is a point, or 3) the calculated centroid of geometry if it is a polygon. The location is also referenced by the osm_way_id attribute, which is the closest pedestrian-accessible OpenStreetMap way to the Stop. The osm_way_id is checked and updated periodically, approximately once every 48 hours, to reflect any changes to OpenStreetMap; last_conflated_at is the timestamp of the last check.

The Stops API also returns several relations to Operators and Routes for convenience. routes_serving_stop is an array of objects, one for each Route that visits the stop, and includes route_onestop_id and route_name as well as the operator_onestop_id and operator_name for the route's operator. Similarly, operators_serving_stop includes the operator_onestop_id and operator_name for each Operator that serves the stop. served_by_vehicle_types is the aggregated vehicle_type of all the Routes that visit the stop.

AttributeTypeDescription
onestop_idOnestop IDStop Onestop ID
geometryGeometryStop geometry; can be point or polygon
nameStringStop name
timezoneStringStop timezone
osm_way_idIntegerConflated OSM way ID
last_conflated_atDatetimeTimestamp of last time osm_way_id was checked
served_by_vehicle_typesArrayVehicle types that visit this Stop
wheelchair_boardingBooleanWheelchair accessible
geometry_reversegeoGeometryAlternate geometry; always a point
geometry_centroidGeometryStop centroid; always a point
operators_serving_stopObject arrayOperators serving this Stop
routes_serving_stopObject arrayRoutes serving this Stop
tagsObjectTags

Stops API

Endpoint: /api/v1/stops

Standard entity query parameters:

Query parameterTypeDescriptionExample
onestop_idOnestop ID(s)Onestop IDLake Merritt BART
latFloatLatitudeNear a point
lonFloatLongitudeNear a point
rFloatRadius (meters) for lat/lonWithin 1km of a point
bboxBounding boxBounding box: ymin, xmin, ymax, xmaxDowntown Oakland
updated_sinceDatetimeEntity has been modified sinceUpdated in 2017
imported_from_feedOnestop IDImported from FeedImported from BART
imported_from_feed_versionFeed VersionImported from Feed VersionImported from a specific BART version
imported_with_gtfs_idString(s)Associated with GTFS entityImported from BART with GTFS ID "LAKE"
tag_keyStringTag keyIncludes tag "stop_url"
tag_valueStringTag valueTag "zone_id" is "1"
includeString(s)Include in response: issues, geometry, imported_from_feedsInclude Issues and import data
excludeString(s)Exclude from response: issues, geometry, imported_from_feedsExclude geometry

Plus:

Query parameterTypeDescriptionExample
served_byOnestop ID(s)Served by Operator or RouteServed by BART or AC Transit Line 1
served_by_vehicle_typesString(s)Served by vehicle typesSFMTA light rail stops
wheelchair_boardingBooleanWheelchair accessibleAccessible BART stations

Stop import process

When a new GTFS feed is imported, existing Transitland Stops are matched with GTFS stops.txt stops based on the GTFS stop_id used in the last import. If a match is found, the existing Transitland Stop is updated; if a match is not found, a new Transitland Stop is created.

Stations

Several Stops can be grouped together into a StopStation complex. A StopStation can have several StopPlatforms, each representing a platform where a transit vehicle can stop, and several StopEgresses, where pedestrians may enter or exit a station.

Stations data model

The StopStation, StopPlatforms and StopEgresses models are very similar to the plain Stop model.

The significant differences are that a StopStation will include nested StopPlatforms in stop_platforms and StopEgresses in stop_egresses. Additionally, the top-level StopStation will include operators_serving_stop_and_platforms, routes_serving_stop_and_platforms, and vehicle_types_serving_stop_and_platforms instead of the similarly named Stop relations.

A StopEgress includes an additional directionality attribute to note if a pedestrian can enter (street-to-station), exit (station-to-street), or both enter and exit the station. A StopEgress does not include operators_serving_stop and routes_serving_stop, since it is not visited by trips.

A StopPlatform does not include osm_way_id, last_conflated_at, or directionality, since it does not connect to the street network.

StopStations API

Endpoint: /api/v1/stop_stations

The StopStations endpoint has the same query parameters as the Stop endpoint, plus:

Query parameterTypeDescriptionExample
min_platformsIntegerMinimum number of StopPlatformsAt least 10 platforms
min_egressesIntegerMinimum number of StopEgressesAt least 1 egress

Generated platforms and egresses

By default, the StopStations endpoint will include a generated StopEgress or StopPlatform if none exist, using the values from the StopStation. Any generated entity will have a generated attribute with a value of true. This commonly happens when a regular Stop with no platforms or egresses defined is accessed through the StopStations endpoint. This behavior can be disabled by setting the exclude query parameter to generated.