Welcome to the Realtime Bus Data Server
- Requirements
The application is developed on Linux. For any other OS, your mileage may vary.
You'll need at least 4GB RAM.
PostgreSQL database (tested with >= 9.1). Connection pooling is definitely a plus. PostGIS (tested with >= 1.5) PHP (required >= 5.3). A code cache, as APC or the Optimzer Plus, coming with PHP 5.5 makes sense. MapServer (>= 5.6) together with PHP MapScript are needed. A web server, able to run PHP is needed.
- Setting up the data base
A PostGIS database must be initialized. Details on this can be found in the official PostGIS documentation, 1
The database schema can be found in dataserver/SQL/realtimebus-schema.sql.
If you have any detailed geometry for you bus route segments, defined as the exact geometry for going from a bus
stop to the next one, insert these into the table ort_edges.
- Install the Symfony modules
The Symfony environment can be initialized with
cd dataserver/
php composer.phar install
Further details can be found in 2 and 3.
Add the project specific parameters from dataserver/app/config/parameters.yml.sample to
dataserver/app/config/parameters.yml.sample, as created by the Symfony installation process.
Set up the web server and test you installation, using the standards API.
- Import the VDV data
VDV data can be imported with
php app/console vdv:import_data DIRECTORY_WITH_VDV_DATA
Once the VDV time table has been imported, data can be sent to http://MY_HOST/receiver by POSTing the appropriate JSON datagram.
Enjoy!