Software that validates General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)-realtime feeds

Please note that this project is still under development and will not perform the intended task of monitoring a GTFS-Realtime feed and logging the errors.

The instructions below are only to get the project up and running in the current state.

The GTFS-Realtime Validator is built using Java technologies. Maven is the build management tool for this project. An instance of the Jetty embedded server is used to run the core application.

Following are the requirements to get the project up and running.

• Access to a terminal
• JDK installed on the system
• Maven installed on the system
• (optional) git installed on the system to clone the repository

The source files would be needed in order to build the jar file. You can obtain them by downloading the files directly or by cloning the git repository (recommended).

Download the current snapshot of the project to your local machine using the "Download Zip" link on the project home page. (https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/gtfs-realtime-validator)

With git installed on the system clone the repository to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/gtfs-realtime-validator.git

Using maven the project should be built. This process would create an executable jar.

With maven installed on the system package the project to build the executable.

mvn package

The second step would generate an executable file in the target/ directory with all the dependencies needed to run the application.

Execute the file created in order to start up the application

java -jar target/gtfs-rt-validator-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

A message similar to INFO: Started @XXXms appears upon successful execution.

Once the application has been started the web interface can be accessed at localhost:8080

From there, following the instructions should allow for starting the monitoirng of the GTFS-Realtime Feeds.

Tables for each valid RT feed will be created and updated every 10 second if the execution is succesful