GTFS Realtime feeds have been provided by the Victoria Department of Transport and Planning
to provide realtime updates about Public Transport services. It contains feeds about:
- Trip Updates - delays, cancellations, changed routes
- Service Alerts - stop moved, unforeseen events affecting a station, route or the entire network
- Vehicle Positions - information about the vehicles including location and congestion level
Please note these feeds are provided in the Protocol Buffer format and are not human readable.
For more information refer to this GTFS Realtime page () which is maintained by MobilityData () and facilitates the GTFS and GTFS-R specification.
Summary of Changes:
Two new V/Line real-time open data feeds have been released so passengers can make decisions about their journeys using the right information at the right time, no matter their app of choice:
GTFS-R - Trip Updates - vLine: gives a predicted arrival or departure time for stops along a public transport route. Trip updates can also provide for more complex scenarios where trips are cancelled or added to the schedule or even re-routed.
GTFS-R - Vehicle Positions - vLine: provides automatically generated information on the location of a vehicle, such as from a GPS device on board
Why are these changes being made?
These changes are being made to:
- Create consistent and accurate real-time transport information for open data users.
- Improve trip planning and data usability by better aligning static and real-time datasets.
NOTE:
- The API Key is to be used in the request header. Header name is 'KeyID'.
- API endpoint rate limit - Metro Train (24 calls per 60 seconds), Tram (24 calls per 60 seconds), Bus (24 calls per 60 seconds)
- Data Refresh rate - (Metro Train - Near real-time), (Tram - Every 60 seconds), (Bus - Near real-time)
