Bus_Route: Retrieve the detailed information of each bus route

In ChiaJung-Yeh/NYCU_TDX: Connecting transportation data from TDX, Taiwan.

Retrieve the detailed information of each bus route

Description

The function is used to download the bus route information, including the route name, subroute name, bus route type, direction, departure and destination stop name. Note that it supports to download data of city buses and intercity buses.

Usage

Bus_Route(access_token, county, dates=F, out=F)

Arguments

access_token	Your access token given by TDX platform. This can be derived from the function get_token().
county	Please fill in the English county name. Checking out the appropriate county name in dataframe TDX_County. If Intercity is used, the function retrieves the intercity bus data.
dates	If historical data would be retrieved, this argument should be set; otherwise the default value is FALSE. The date format should be YYYY-MM-DD.
out	If the result should be exported to the local, please fill in the directory. The default value is FALSE, which does not export the data.

Value

Some columns definition are listed below.

	RouteUID	It contains every subroutes and directions in a same RouteUID.
	SubRouteUID	If the direction or subroute is not the same, a different SubRouteUID must be recorded.

Codes of Direction are listed below.

0	outbound
1	inbound
2	loop
255	unknown

Codes of BusRouteType are listed below.

11	City Bus
12	Intercity Bus (Normal)
13	Intercity Bus (Freeway)
14	Feeder bus

Author(s)

Maintainer: Chia Jung, Yeh [e-mail]

Examples

Bus_Route(access_token, "Taipei")
Bus_Route(access_token, "Hsinchu", out="./Hsinchu_Bus_Route.csv")

# historical data
Bus_Route(access_token, "Hsinchu", "2022-01-01")

ChiaJung-Yeh/NYCU_TDX documentation built on Aug. 28, 2024, 10:43 p.m.