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A lightweight subset of raw bus GPS pings from Kandy, Sri Lanka, intended for examples and testing of the gps2gtfs pipeline. It is the gps_data input, and works together with g2g_data_stops and g2g_data_terminals, which describe the same service.

Usage

g2g_data_gps

Format

A data frame with 2167 rows and 6 variables:

id

Unique identifier for the GPS record.

vehicle_id

Unique identifier for the tracking vehicle (bus). Column naming follows the GTFS-Realtime convention.

timestamp

Timestamp of the GPS ping (UTC).

latitude

Latitude in WGS-84 degrees.

longitude

Longitude in WGS-84 degrees.

speed

Recorded speed of the vehicle.

Source

Original data from the Python gps2gtfs package.

References

Ratneswaran, S., & Thayasivam, U. (2023). Extracting potential Travel time information from raw GPS data and Evaluating the Performance of Public transit - a case study in Kandy, Sri Lanka. 2023 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Communication and Computational Techniques (ICCT), 1-7. doi:10.1109/ICCT56969.2023.10075789