All our SaaS products have been updated with the releases associated to this Sprint 117 on Nov 10, 2024.

Chouette

Search Stop Areas with Statistics & Graph

The user can create chart in Stop Area search by grouping by:

• Creation Date and Month

• Update Date and Month

• Area Type

• Transport Mode

• Adresse attributes: Zip Code, City, Postal Region, Country

• Status

• Referent or Particular

• Stop Area Provider

• Time Zone

Open

Stop Areas count by City

Open

Stop Areas count by Transport Mode

All Chouette searches will be gradually improved with this Statistics & Graph feature.

Control Attribute Uniqueness

The user can control that an attribute has always an unique value.

The user can define:

• the target model (Stop Area, Line, Company, Vehicle Journey)

• the attribute

• the uniqueness scope (not available for DataSet models): By Workgroup, By Workbench, By Provider

The following attributes are supported:

• Stop Area

  • Name

  • Registration Number

• Line

  • Name

  • Registration Number

• Company

  • Name

  • Registration Number

• Vehicle Journey

  • Published Name

  • Published Identifier

The uniqueness scope can’t be specified for DataSet models (like Vehicle Journey). The attribute is only available for not DataSet models like Stop Area, Line or Company.

Improve GTFS Transfers import processing time

Even for very large GTFS Transfers (some users are managing in Chouette more than 100 000 connections), the import spends few minutes to create or update Chouette Connections.

Preserve Line Attributes when no defined in GTFS Route

The user can import a GTFS Route which updates an existing Chouette Line without:

• short name

• long name

• description

• url

The associated Chouette Line keeps the existing value for associated attributes like the name, published name, number, description or URL.

Change the Wheelchair Accessibility as Unknown via a GTFS import

The user can change the Stop Area Wheelchair Accessibility to Unkown by importing a GTFS Stop with wheelchair_boarding with value 0. If the GTFS Stop has no wheelchair_boarding value, the Stop Area Wheelchair Accessibility is unchanged.

Improve NeTEx Vehicle Journey Stop Assignment export processing time

The NeTEx Vehicle Journey Stop Assignment export processing time has been divided by 10. This processing time is less than a minute even for largest datasets.

Better NeTEx Export Processing time

The enRoute R&D efforts to provide a fast Chouette NeTEx export continues. The studies performed the last months lead to several small improvements into the export database usage.

The user can see the different on very large datasets where Stops, Routes and Journey patterns exports are faster.

With the latest improvements, very large exports (more than 5GB of XML) can be performed in less than 15 minutes.

Define Stop Area & Line Group Short name

The user can defined Short Name on Stop Area and Line Groups:

Flexible Transport Service

The Chouette Saas 2025 roadmap includes new features about Flexible Transport Service support. These features includes a support of GTFS Flex and NeTEx Flexible resources.

We’ve released a Feature Plan - Flexible Transport Service v1 which describes them.

Ara

Manage Stop Area & Line Groups

Ara manages Stop Area & Line Groups. The user can import Stop Area & Line Groups use the Ara Import file.

Technical updates

We’re constantly upgrading the technical stack used in our SaaS products. The Ara user interface has been upgraded to the latest version of Ruby on Rails framework.

Chouette Valid

Provide a unified CLI client secretary-client

The user can via a unified command line tool:

• create a Validation (provided by Chouette Valid)

• create a Conversion (provided by Chouette Convert)

The beta version of https://bitbucket.org/enroute-mobi/secretary-client/src/main/ can be downloaded.

Validate NeTEx XML schema according to the next NeTEx XSD

The user can select the expected NeTEx schema version:

The supported versions are:

• master (used by default)

• next (a copy of GitHub - NeTEx-CEN/NeTEx at next)

Validate NeTEx XML schema according to the latest NeTEx XSD

Chouette Valid uses the latest NeTEx XML schema current/stable version (aka master). The NeTEx XSD team has recently performed a notable improvement on order attribute: change all order to positiveInteger, by ue71603 · Pull Request #657 · NeTEx-CEN/NeTEx.

This change (and other minor updates) is now effective in the Chouette Valid XSD validation.

NeTEx files and code should be updated if the value zero is used in order attribute:

Manage Ruleset by API

In the future, the user will be able to manage its own rulesets. The first step is providing a management via the Chouette Valid API or the command line tool.

We’ve published a Feature Plan - Chouette Valid - Ruleset management about these features.

Chouette Convert

Convert NeTEx to NeTEx

The user can convert a NeTEx file into another NeTEx file with the specified profile:

For example, the user can convert any NeTEx file into the beta file structure of NeTEx French Profile (see https://github.com/etalab/transport-profil-netex-fr/issues/121).

Create NeTEx file from GTFS with valid orders

As required by the current NeTEx XML schema (see Sprint 118 | Validate NeTEx XML schema according to the latest NeTEx XSD above), the NeTEx file created by a GTFS to NeTEx conversion uses positive integer for PassengerStopAssignment, DayTypeAssignment, etc. order attributes.

Convert GTFS Calendar using NeTEx UicOperatingPeriod

As required by the NeTEx French Profile (see https://normes.transport.data.gouv.fr/normes/netex/elements_communs/), a UicOperatingPeriod NeTEx resource is used when a GTFS Calendar with date range is converted into a DayType.

The NeTEx UicOperatingPeriod ValidDayBits attribute is created by using the GTFS Calendar Date range and the associated Days Of Week (cf the associated issue in the French NeTEx Profile https://github.com/etalab/transport-profil-netex-fr/issues/58 ):