Description

A contract describes the allocation of lines to a company.

A contract is defined by :

• a name

• an existing company

• one or more lines

• associated codes

Contracts are specific to each workbench.

Check the contracts

You can check your organisation's contracts in your ‘Workbench’.

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For each contract: Name, Company, and associated Lines are displayed.

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For each contract, a cogwheel is used to launch the available actions (show, edit, delete this contract).

Create a contract manually

To create a new contract manually, click on the ‘+Create a Contract’ button and fill in the form with the relevant information.

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Once you have validated the form, you will be redirected to the contract record you have created.

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Import contracts with a GTFS file

Contracts can be imported into Chouette (or updated) with a GTFS file in attributions.txt.

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During import, the information entered in the GTFS and associated with the same company in Chouette will create/update a contract in your workbench. This contract will group together all the lines of the same company. The matching in the GTFS is made with agency_id, or company Chouette id.

Exporting contracts

The contracts linked to your offer will be exported in GTFS format in the file attribution.txt.

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They will be described with the following attributes:

• attribution_id which defines the dataset contract

• trip_id which defines the route associated with the company to which the contract is allocated

• route_id which defines the line attached to the company to which the contract is allocated

• organization_name which defines the company to which the contract is allocated

• is_operator which defines a company's ‘operator’ status

• is_producer which defines a company's ‘producer’ status