gtfs-fares-v2-validator

This is a tool to validate fares-v2 GTFS datasets.

Validates ONLY fares-v2 specific files and dependent files, and does NOT validate GTFS schedule data.

Provides validation towards two versions of the fares-v2 specifications:

1. [Default] fares-v2 files in the official GTFS specification
2. [Through -e flag] the official specification above, as well as additional fields ("experimental" fields) defined in the GTFS fares-v2 draft document, with some exceptions. Also includes some fields used internally at Transit, and which are either current or upcoming proposals to the official specification.

Running the tool with the -e flag provides validation for experimental features, and notices pertaining to experimental features are clearly marked as such.

Requirements

python 3

Validate a fares dataset

python3 validate.py PATH-TO-FOLDER-CONTAINING-FARES-V2-DATASET [-o, --output-file FILE-TO-EXPORT-VALIDATION-REPORT-TO] [-e, --experimental]

For example:

python3 validate.py ~/data/my-fares-v2-dataset -o report.txt

Run tests

python3 -m pip install pytest
pytest

Unsupported experimental fields and files (subject to change)

• fare_capping.txt: unsupported file. All fare_capping references in other files are also unsupported.
• fare_products.txt: service_id, all timeframe fields
• fare_transfer_rules.txt: transfer_id, transfer_sequence

Discontinued experimental fields

• fare_leg_rules.txt: contains_area_id, all amount fields, currency
• fare_transfer_rules.txt: all amount fields, currency,

Amount and currency on these two files have been replaced by the usage of fare products to specify cost.

Additional experimental fields

• fare_leg_rules.txt
  • transfer_only: specifies that a fare leg rule may only be used at the back-end of a transfer
• fare_transfer_rules.txt
  • filter_fare_product_id: a fare product necessary to have in order for a transfer to be valid. Does not encode the cost of a transfer, as fare_product_id does.