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Transit Routes

Overview

The Transit routes table contains the transit routes modeled within a given Replica region. This table can be joined to the seasonal trip tableusing the unique route_id field. For instance, transit route names and agencies associated with trips can be obtained by joining the seasonal trip table’s transit_route_ids to the transit routes table on this common field.

Schema

Field Name

Content Type

Sample Value

Description

agency_name

String

MTA Bus Company

Agency name pulled from agency GTFS feed of target modeled season

route_id

String

MTA Bus Company:Q06

Concatenation of:
• agency_name
• route_id
Pulled from agency GTFS feed of target season

route_long_name

String

Sutphin Boulevard

Long name of route pulled from agency GTFS feed of target modeled season

route_short_name

String

Q6

Short name of route pulled from agency GTFS feed of target modeled season

route_type

Integer

3

Route type pulled from agency GTFS feed of target modeled season, using the google GTFS specifications: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference#routestxt but incremented by one by account for an unknown type. See mapping list below:
• 0 - Unknown
• 1 - Light Rail
• 2 - Subway, Metro
• 3 - Rail
• 4 - Bus
• 5 - Ferry
• 6 - Cable car
• 7 - Gondola
• 8 - Funicular
• 12 - Trolley Bus
• 13 - Monorail

route_color

String

FFDB00

Route color pulled from agency GTFS feed of target modeled season. This hexadecimal code represents the color used in public facing material