MTA-Train-Tracker

A Python program that extracts data from New York City's MTA using a public API and interacting with Google's Protocol Buffer. The main goal is to predict a train's ETA to a particular station.

General notes for beginners

• "stop_id" is an identifier for a station
• "stop_id" is created with the 1st letter being a train that stops, the station's number, and which direction the train is going E.g. "G30N" translates to G train in station #30 heading north
• The arrival and departure time is in Epoch/POSIX format. I.e. Time passed since January 1, 1970
• Accept terms & condition to get all available data from MTA (http://web.mta.info/developers/developer-data-terms.html#data)

Libraries needed

1. GTFS Realtime Bindings.
2. Pandas

Execute command: pip install --upgrade gtfs-realtime-bindings pandas