Re:Analyzing Caltrain Delays
by ZanyProgrammer on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:42PM
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If only Caltrain had a decent API for developers that produced data that is needed for any serious analysis (like train number, speed and lat/long). I hate having to resort to hackey workarounds like scraping for this info. I believe the NextBus API for MUNI has actual positional data and vehicle info. Caltrain, being the mediocre agency it is, has a next to useless API (if I remember the docs correctly on 511.org).
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An API would go a long way and realtime information would obviously be awesome. It appears that even if Caltrain provided historical data of actual departure times per train per station, that would be a huge improvement.