Osrm-backend: Routing of Public Transport based on GTFS

[rafapereirabr]

Are there any plans to incorporate routing for Public Transport based on GTFS data ?

[TheMarex]

Sorry we don't plan to support public transport as it needs a completely different approach than street-network level routing.

[daniel-j-h]

For the record, what I wrote on the OSRM mailinglist a few month ago re. public transport and gtfs:

I recently looked into this for a few hours. This may help you getting started:

GTFS transit feed specification, examples, ecosystem:
https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/#overview-of-a-gtfs-feed
https://github.com/google/transit/tree/master/gtfs-realtime

Publicly listed GTFS feeds:
https://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds

Good overview; you can find tools in OtherTools:
https://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/w/list

(e.g. a routing server for gtfs feeds)

If you want to implement the transit routing yourself, a solid start is
Connection Scan --- "Intriguingly Simple and Fast Transit Routing"

quite easy to implement but also has its limitations.