Transport Data Commons tools

The Python package transport-data is available from PyPI:

$ pip install transport-data

It provides tools for working with Transport Data Commons (TDC) data and metadata/structures, and is built and maintained by the Transport Data Commons Initiative (TDCI) and members of the broader TDC community. For more about the TDC, TDCI, and community, see https://transport-data.org.

This documentation is automatically generated from the code available at transport-data/tools. For more on the design, status, and plans for this package, see Development.

General

• Usage

• Development

• Data standards

• Roadmap

• What’s new

Data and metadata

The following modules contain code tailored to individual data providers. They handle tasks including:

• Parse (meta)data or structure information from providers’ idiosyncratic data formats.

• Provide metadata and structure information that is implicit; not directly available from the provider itself.

• adb: Asian Development Bank

• estat: Eurostat

• iamc: IAM Consortium

• jrc: JRC of the European Commission

• oica: International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers

• org: TDCI itself

• proto: 2023 TDC prototype

Common code and utilities

The following modules contain generic code and utilities usable with (meta)data from multiple providers or sources or created by TDCI.

• cli: Command-line interface

• config: Configuration

• store: (Meta)data storage

• testing: Utilities for testing

• tests: Test suite

• util: Utilities

There are also the following top-level objects:

transport_data.CONFIG = Config(config_path=None, data_path=PosixPath('/home/docs/.local/share/transport-data'), store_map={'TDCI': 'registry', 'TEST': 'local'})

Global configuration.

transport_data.STORE = <transport_data.store.UnionStore object>

Global access to data storage.

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page