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pfaedle

Precise map-matching for public transit feeds.

Requirements

• cmake
• gcc
• libboost-system, libboost-filesystem, libboost-geometry

Building and Installation

Fetch this repository and init submodules:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ad-freiburg/pfaedle

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j

To install, type

make install

General Usage

Generating shapes for an entire GTFS feed

./build/pfaedle -c pfaedle.cfg -x <OSM FILE> <GTFS INPUT FOLDER>

A shape'd version of the input GTFS feed will be written to ./gtfs-out.

By default, shapes are only calculated for trips that don't have a shape in the input feed. To drop all existing shapes, use the -D flag.

Generating shapes for an entire GTFS feed, but only for a specific MOT

To generate shapes only for a specific mot, use the -m option. Possible values are either tram, bus, rail, subway, ferry, funicular, gondola, all.

Multiple values can be specified (comma separated).

OSM filtering

pfaedle comes with the ability to filter OpenStreetMap data. If you specify the -X flag, pfaedle will filter the input OSM file and output a now OSM file which contains exactly the data needed to calculate the shapes for the input GTFS feed and the input configuration.

This can be used to avoid parsing (for example) the entire world.osm on each run.

Debugging

The following flags may be useful for debugging:

• -T only calculate shape for a single trip and output it as GeoJSON to <dbg-path>/path.json
• --write-graph write the graph used for routing as GeoJSON to <dbg-path>/graph.json
• --write-cgraph if -T is set, write the combination graph used for routing as GeoJSON to <dbg-path>/combgraph.json

Configuration

The main config file distributed with this repository is pfaedle.cfg. The config file has some comments which hopefully explain the meaning behind the parameters

Evaluation

You may run an entire evaluation of our testing datasets Vitoria-Gasteiz and Stuttgart with

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j
make eval

Note: this will download, and filter, the entire OSM files for Spain and the Stuttgart region. Make sure you have enough space left on your hard drive.

Evaluation requirements

• zlib

On Debianesque systems, type

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

to install the dependencies.

Known Bugs

None so far \o/