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A timetable can be produced dynamically, on request, for a particular journey on a particular day around a particular time (see journey planner, below), or in a timetable that gives an overview of all services, in a particular category, and is valid for a specified period. The latter could take the form of a book, leaflet, billboard, or a (set ...
GTFS or the General Transit Feed Specification defines a common data format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. [1] GTFS contains only static or scheduled information about public transport services, and is sometimes known as GTFS Static or GTFS Schedule to distinguish it from the GTFS Realtime extension, which defines how information on the realtime ...
A journey planner, trip planner, or route planner is a specialized search engine used to find an optimal means of travelling between two or more given locations, sometimes using more than one transport mode. [1] [2] Searches may be optimized on different criteria, for example fastest, shortest, fewest changes, cheapest. [3]
The timetable continued to be published in paper format by The Stationery Office and Middleton Press. The Stationery Office published their last edition in 2014, [ 8 ] and Middleton Press stopped production in 2019, by which point the hardcopy timetable cost £26 and was available by mail order only, meaning that there is no longer any means of ...
Because it is accepted by most airlines and backed by IATA it simplifies the sharing of data between airlines, airports, reservation systems and many other aviation entities. The SSIM format includes structured data elements such as flight numbers, departure and arrival times, airport codes, aircraft types, and other information.
Crime writers were fascinated with trains and timetables, especially as a new source of alibis. Examples are Ronald Knox's The Footsteps at the Lock (1928) and novels by Freeman Wills Crofts. One mention is by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes story The Valley of Fear: "the vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited."
Normally the timetable established both protection and authority for scheduled trains so train orders were only used for extra trains, which were not in the timetable, and scheduled trains moving contrary to their normal authorities. Timetable and train order operation supplanted earlier forms of timetable only and line-of-sight running.
The point-to-point model is used widely by low-cost carriers, including Allegiant Air and Southwest Airlines in the U.S., and European carriers such as Ryanair, easyJet and Wizzair, along with some low-cost carriers in Asia like AirAsia, Lion Air and VietJet Air, for example. [1]