ATCO-CIF is the format of choice for UK public transport authorities. This is a ruby library that reads .cif files and gives you JSON back.

• ATCO (Association of Transport Coordinating Officers)

• CIF (Common Interface File)

• Official spec: http:https://www.pti.org.uk/CIF/atco-cif-spec.pdf

• NOTE: official spec is no-longer available from the above URL but can be found on archive.org

• A copy of the atco-cif-spec.pdf is included in the docs folder in this repo

Currently this library is under-development and has several things left to do before it is perfect (see the TODO.md list ).

• clone this library git clone [email protected]:davidjrice/atco.git
• or install the gem gem install atco
• start an irb session (with the helper console command) bin/console

Code example, for more detailed internal api usage see the spec files.

require "rubygems"
require "atco"

result = Atco.parse("filename.cif")
result = Atco.parse("data/SVRTMAO009A-20091005.cif")

=> {
  header: {…}, # Atco::Header
  locations: […], # Atco::Location
  journeys: {
    "journey_identifier": {…} # Atco::Journey
  },
  unparsed: [
    {line: "unparsed line", line_number:1234}
  ]
}

The ATCO-CIF Ruby library was originally authored by David Rice @davidjrice in response to an FOI request to Translink for there timetable data as part of an OpenDataNI initiative.

See CONTRIBUTORS.md