GTFS-RT Vehicle positions

STIB: brussels metro, tram and bus operator

Format: GTFS-RT
Updates: On request, from the latest vehicle-trip snapshot (every 20 seconds)

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MOBILITYTWIN_TOKEN" -o gtfs-rt-vehicle-position.pb "https://api.mobilitytwin.brussels/stib/gtfs-rt-vehicle-position"

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STIB/MIVB vehicle positions as a standard GTFS Realtime feed, built from vehicle-trip. Produced by MobilityTwin.Brussels, not an official STIB feed.

One VehiclePosition per vehicle, with trip_id, start_date and start_time where the trip was established, and otherwise only route_id and direction_id. vehicle.id is the tracking uuid, stable for one run. IDs match the gtfs endpoint of the same day.

A binary GTFS Realtime message (Protocol Buffers). Decode it with gtfs-realtime-bindings.

Parameters

Name	Meaning
`start_timestamp`	Start of the range, in Unix seconds or ISO 8601. Without any timestamp, the last hour is used; with only one, the hour starting or ending at it.
`end_timestamp`	End of the range, in Unix seconds or ISO 8601.

Python example

import requests
from google.transit import gtfs_realtime_pb2

url = "https://api.mobilitytwin.brussels/stib/gtfs-rt-vehicle-position"

data = requests.get(url, headers={
        'Authorization': 'Bearer [MY_API_KEY]'
}).content

feed = gtfs_realtime_pb2.FeedMessage()
feed.ParseFromString(data)

# List all vehicle positions (trip_id is empty for a vehicle not yet matched)
for entity in feed.entity:
    v = entity.vehicle
    print(f"Route {v.trip.route_id} trip {v.trip.trip_id or '-'}: "
          f"({v.position.latitude:.4f}, {v.position.longitude:.4f}), "
          f"stop {v.stop_id or '-'} seq {v.current_stop_sequence}")