SEPTA API

Code for America: Philadelphia Civic Hackathon 2012

SEPTA and SEPTAdev welcomes the second generation of Code for America fellows, as well as, all those participating in the Code Across America: Philadelphia Civic Hackathon in Philadelphia. The previous version of this page is still available.

SEPTA App Ideas

Representative and Transit Mashup - look up your transit trip and contact your reps about them
Car Share and Transit Mashup - overlay transit and car share (zipcar, philly car share) info
Multi-Lingual Apps - show transit information in other languages
Augemented Reality - hold up your phone and get transit info layerd on
Events (ex: eventful.com) and Transit Mashup - search events and how to get there
Multi-Route Information - for those who can use mutliple routes/modes to get from place to place

Real-Time Data (New)

SEPTA locations API- This api takes in 4 paramters a latitude(required), longitude(required), type(optional), radius(optional) to return all SEPTA locations from a geographical point within a radius that is measured in miles.

Types: [bus_stops,rail_stations,perk_locations,trolley_stops,sales_locations]

Note: For radius it is a decimal value so .5 is acceptable for half a mile.

JSONP OR JSON compatiable. For JSONP add &callback=?

Additonal Notes: More infomation about sales and perk locations are embedded inside the arrays. Notifed as perk_data or sales_data.

http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/locations/get_locations.php?lon=-75.33299748&lat=40.11043326&radius=3
Sample Jquery:
$.ajax({
url: "http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/locations/get_locations.php?lon=-75.161&lat=39.95205&callback=?",
dataType: "jsonp",
success: function(data){
$.each(data, function(i,item){
var locname =item.location_name;
if( item.location_type== 'perk_locations');
{
if(item.perk_data != null)
alert(item.perk_data.perk_id + ' ' +item.perk_data.perk_name);
}
});
}
});

Real-Time Data

Real-time Data is not yet available for the Broad Street Line (Subway), Market Frankford Line (EL), and Norristown High Speed Line (Rt. 100)....we're really sorry it's not available, but we're working on getting it!

System Status: Suspensions, Alerts, Detours and Advisories (json/jsonp)

System Status Web Page

Param(s): Route/Line Name (optional)
Will show if there is an alert, advisory, or detour:
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/Alerts/

JSONP Example(s)
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/Alerts/?callback=?

Adivosry, Alert, Detour Messages:

All Alerts Messages
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/Alerts/get_alert_data.php?req1=all

Single Alerts Messages
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/Alerts/get_alert_data.php?req1=bus_route_1

JSONP Example
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/Alerts/get_alert_data.php?req1=all&callback=?

Regional Rail: TrainView (json, web)

TrainView Web Page

Regional Rail Trainview Feed (json)

Regional Rail Trains on a Google Map

Regional Rail Trains on a System Map. There's bugs in how a few point get rendered. The area's in orange are "Dark Territory" the data in those locations is an estimate at best and that goes for above json data as well. End users should understand that the data can be unreliable. We're wroking to get reliable data from Amtrak.

Regional Rail: Next to Arrive (json)

Next to Arrive Web Page

Param(s): Start Station / End Station / Number of Results (optional)
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/NextToArrive/Airport%20Terminal%20B/Ardmore/10

JSONP Example
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/NextToArrive/?req1=Airport%20Terminal%20B&req2=Ardmore&req3=10&callback=?

Bus/Trolley: Locations (json)

TransitView Web Page

Param(s): Route Number or Letter. Lettered routes in caps.
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/TransitView/17
JSONP Example
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/TransitView/?route=20&callback=?

Bus: Detours (json)

Bus Detours Web Page - deprecated

Param(s): Route (optional)
All Detours for all routes:
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/BusDetours/

Detour By Route:
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/BusDetours/2

JSONP Example
http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/BusDetours/?req1=2&callback=?