Package: transx2gtfs
transx2gtfstransx2gtfsis a library for converting public transport data fromTransXchange-format
(data standard in UK) into a widely usedGTFS-format that can be used with
various routing engines such as OpenTripPlanner.Note!This package is still in a Beta-phase, so use it at your own risk.
If you find an issue, you can contribute and
help solving them byraising an issue.FeaturesReads TransXchange xml-files and converts into GTFS feed with all necessary information
according the General Transit Feed Specification.Works and tested against different TransXchange schemas (TfL schema and TXC 2.1)Combines multiple TransXchange files into a single GTFS feed if present in the same folder.Finds and reads all XML files present in ZipFiles, nested ZipFiles and unpacked directories.Uses multiprocessing to parallelize the conversion process.Parses bank holidays (fromgov.uk) affecting transit operations at the given time span of the TransXChange feed, which are written to calendar_dates.txt.Reads and updates stop information automatically from NaPTAN website.Why yet another converter?There are numerous TransXChange to GTFS converters written in different programming languages.
However, after testing many of them, it was hard to find a tool that would:work in general (without ad-hoc modifications)parse all important information from the TransXChange according GTFS specification.work with different TransXChange schema versionsbe well maintainedbe easy to use in all operating systemsinclude appropriate tests (crucial for maintenance).Hence, this Python package was written which aims at meeting the aforementioned requirements.
It's not the fastest library out there (written in Python) but multiprocessing gives a bit of boost
if having a decent computer with multiple cores.InstallThe package is available at PyPi and you can install it with:$ pip install transx2gtfsLibrary works and is being tested with Python versions 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8.If you don't know how to install Python, you can take a look for examplethese materials.Requirementstransx2gtfs has following dependencies (tested against the latest versions available for Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8):untanglepandaspyprojBasic usageAfter you have installed the library you can use it in a following manner:>>>importtransx2gtfs>>>data_dir_for_transxchange_files="data/my_transxchange_files">>>output_path="data/my_converted_gtfs.zip">>>transx2gtfs.convert(data_dir_for_transxchange_files,output_path)There are a few parameters that you can adjust:input_filepath : str
    File path to data directory or a ZipFile containing one or multiple TransXchange .xml files.
    Also nested ZipFiles are supported (i.e. a ZipFile with ZipFile(s) containing .xml files.)

output_filepath : str
    Full filepath to the output GTFS zip-file, e.g. '/home/myuser/data/my_gtfs.zip'

append_to_existing : bool (default is False)
    Flag for appending to existing gtfs-database. This might be useful if you have
    TransXchange .xml files distributed into multiple directories (e.g. separate files for
    train data, tube data and bus data) and you want to merge all those datasets into a single
    GTFS feed.

worker_cnt : int
    Number of workers to distribute the conversion process. By default the number of CPUs is used.

file_size_limit : int
    File size limit (in megabytes) can be used to skip larger-than-memory XML-files (should not happen).OutputAfter you have successfully converted the TransXchange into GTFS, you can start doing
multimodal routing with your favourite routing engine such as OpenTripPlanner:CitationIf you use this tool for research purposes, we encourage you to cite this work:Henrikki Tenkanen. (2020). transx2gtfs (Version v0.4.0). Zenodo.http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3631972DevelopersHenrikki Tenkanen, University College London