Pulp GTFS

GTFS helpers for Pulp pipelines, currently focused on generating clean GeoJSON for stops and lines.

Features

• Static GTFS input: Reads standard extracted GTFS .txt files from a directory.
• Stops GeoJSON: Creates point features from stops.txt.
• Lines GeoJSON: Creates representative route geometries from routes.txt, trips.txt, and shapes.txt, with an optional stop-based fallback.
• Bounding box filtering: Limits output to stops inside a configured [minLon, minLat, maxLon, maxLat] bbox.
• Line enrichment: Adds served lines and modes to stop features.
• Accessibility enrichment: Maps wheelchair_boarding into normalized and legacy properties.
• Presentation-neutral output: Emits source/data properties only; applications can add icons, HTML descriptions, and other presentation fields afterwards.

Installation

composer require mapsight/pulp-gtfs

This package depends on mapsight/pulp.

Usage

Supported output types:

• stops
• lines
• combined

Download, cache, and extract GTFS data before running the handler. The handler expects files like routes.txt, stops.txt, trips.txt, stop_times.txt, and shapes.txt to pass through the pipeline.

use OpenMapsight\Pulp;
use OpenMapsight\PulpGeoJSON;
use OpenMapsight\PulpGTFS;
use OpenMapsight\PulpJSON;

$gtfsDirectory = __DIR__ . '/cache/gtfs-extracted';

Pulp::start()
    ->pipe(Pulp::src('.*\.txt', $gtfsDirectory))
    ->pipe(Pulp::split(
        static fn(Pulp $p): Pulp => $p->pipe(PulpGTFS::geoJson(
            'stops',
            'https://example.com/open-data-docs',
            [10.42, 52.18, 10.65, 52.36],
            null,
            'GTFS',
            'https://example.com/open-data-docs',
            'https://example.com/open-data-docs',
        )),
        static fn(Pulp $p): Pulp => $p->pipe(PulpGTFS::geoJson(
            'lines',
            'https://example.com/open-data-docs',
            [10.42, 52.18, 10.65, 52.36],
            null,
            'GTFS',
            'https://example.com/open-data-docs',
            'https://example.com/open-data-docs',
        )),
    ))
    ->pipe(PulpGeoJSON::calculateBBoxes())
    ->pipe(PulpGeoJSON::addBuildInfo())
    ->pipe(PulpJSON::encodeJSON(JSON_PRETTY_PRINT))
    ->pipe(Pulp::dest(__DIR__ . '/result'))
    ->run();

If your extracted files use different names, pass a file map:

PulpGTFS::geoJson('combined', $sourceUrl, $bbox, options: [
    'files' => [
        'routes' => 'my-routes.csv',
        'stops' => 'my-stops.csv',
        'stopTimes' => 'my-stop-times.csv',
        'trips' => 'my-trips.csv',
        'shapes' => 'my-shapes.csv',
    ],
])

If a feed does not provide shapes, opt into simple stop-to-stop line strings:

PulpGTFS::geoJson('lines', $sourceUrl, $bbox, options: [
    'fallbackLineStringsFromStops' => true,
])

When this option is enabled, shapes.txt is no longer required for lines or combined output. If shapes are present, they are still preferred; the fallback is only used for routes without usable shape coordinates.

Handler Arguments

PulpGTFS::geoJson(...) accepts:

• type: one of stops, lines, or combined.
• sourceUrl: The public or internal source URL used for metadata.
• bbox: [minLon, minLat, maxLon, maxLat].
• departuresBaseUrl: Optional base URL for live departure data. When set, stop features get departuresUrl.
• sourceName: Human-readable source name in feature properties and collection metadata.
• documentationUrl: Public documentation URL in collection metadata.
• publicSourceUrl: Public source URL written to feature properties and collection metadata. Use this when the actual sourceUrl contains a private token.
• options: Optional handler settings. Use fallbackLineStringsFromStops to derive simple route geometries from ordered stops when shapes are unavailable, and files to map non-standard GTFS file names.

Stop Properties

Stop features include:

• gtfsStopId
• name
• lines
• routeIds
• modes
• modeLabels
• wheelchairBoarding
• wheelchairBoardingLabel
• wheelchairAccessible
• stopCode
• parentStation
• departuresUrl when configured

Line Properties

Line features include:

• gtfsRouteId
• gtfsShapeId
• geometrySource: shapes for shape geometries, stops for fallback line strings
• name
• line
• mode
• modeLabel
• routeType
• routeShortName
• routeLongName
• routeUrl
• stroke when route_color is present

Accessibility Mapping

GTFS wheelchair_boarding is mapped as:

• 1: wheelchairBoarding = yes, wheelchairBoardingLabel = accessible
• 2: wheelchairBoarding = no, wheelchairBoardingLabel = not accessible
• 0 or missing: wheelchairBoarding = unknown, wheelchairBoardingLabel = unknown

If a stop has no explicit value, the parent station value is used when available.

Notes

• The line output picks one representative shape per route based on the most common shape among trips serving stops in the bbox.
• The handler streams large GTFS text files and avoids loading complete statewide trips.txt, stop_times.txt, or shapes.txt tables into memory.
• Keep tokenized or licensed GTFS URLs out of generated public GeoJSON by passing a safe publicSourceUrl.
• Add app-specific fields such as mapsightIconId, listInformation, or HTML description in the consuming project, not in this generic package.