rail_incidents: Rail Incidents

In metro: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority API

Rail Incidents

Description

Reported rail incidents (significant disruptions and delays to normal service). The data is identical to WMATA's Metrorail Service Status feed.

Usage

rail_incidents(api_key = wmata_key())

Arguments

api_key

Subscription key which provides access to this API. Defaults Sys.getenv("WMATA_KEY") via wmata_key().

Format

A data frame with 1 row incident and 5 variables:

IncidentID

Unique identifier for an incident.

Description

Free-text description of the incident.

IncidentType

Free-text description of the incident type. Usually Delay or Alert but is subject to change at any time.

LinesAffected

Character vector of line codes (e.g.: RD; or BL; OR; or BL; OR; RD;).

DateUpdated

Date and time (UTC) of last update.

Value

Data frame of all rail incidents.

See Also

https://developer.wmata.com/docs/services/54763641281d83086473f232/operations/54763641281d830c946a3d77

Other Incident APIs: bus_incidents(), elevator_incidents()

Examples

## Not run: 
rail_incidents()

## End(Not run)

metro documentation built on Nov. 2, 2023, 6:06 p.m.