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SEPTA: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

 

 

 

 

is the latest API I played with, as I was looking for GPS data.

API: provides the buses, trolleys & regional trains current GPS locations and status.

I wrote a python program requesting data according to the route number.

Buses on line '23'  at some time:

Once GPS data have been retrieved, it is easy to create a KML file & use google's applications to display the results.

Inst. speed: by requesting a line twice, I can hope for computing some sort of instantaneous speed. The API refresh rate is about 40s, so I am just performing a linear average for that time and then, using the haversine formula (great circle distance):

Inst. speed of a given ID bus on line '23':

Check my other 'open data' based apps.:

  • 'Meteo France' API:

  • Open Weather API:

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