Copy-paste from already published departing times

[mirelon]

The operator usually has a webpage with departing times. What about inferring those intervals and periods from this data, instead of manually inferring?
E.g. in Slovakia we have timetables in this format:

04 | 50 |  
05 | 00 | 06 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 31 | 46 |  
06 | 01 | 16 | 31 | 46 |  
07 | 01 | 16 | 31 | 46 |  
08 | 01 | 31 |  
09 | 01 | 31 |  
10 | 01 | 31 |  
11 | 01 | 31 |  
12 | 01 | 31 |  
13 | 01 | 11 | 21 | 31 | 51 |  
14 | 11 | 21 | 31 | 41 | 51 |  
15 | 01 | 16 | 36 |  
16 | 01 | 31 |  
17 | 11 | 31 |  
18 | 01 | 41 |  
19 | 01 |  
20 | 01 |  
21 | 11 | 31 |  
22 | 11 | 33

I see many periods there with different intervals:
10 minutes (4:50 - 5:00)
6 minutes (5:00 - 5:24)
7 minutes (5:24 - 5:31)
15 minutes (5:31 - 8:01)
30 minutes (8:01 - 13:01)
...

It is too much work to figure those intervals manually.
If I were able to just copy-paste the data, it would be awesome.

[PanierAvide]

Hello, thanks for you feedback. It seems to be a good idea to get this data and parse the syntax to get intervals.

[nlehuby]

Thank for your feedback @mirelon

If there is a common format for all Slovakia, it is a pretty cool idea.
But I'd rather have it in another tool, because I cannot see how we will be able to handle all the timetable formats in the world in one tool 🙍‍♀️

I had a similar use case and we create a spreadsheet with some formulas and remote control links to edit in JOSM: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15OnibQP6qWxrVF-CSU0Pt1oKwoGjiqtPUWuEQPsQuXc/edit?usp=sharing
(this is actual data, please do not edit in OSM 😉 )

Here is the general process:

• define the start and end times of the periods (morning peak hours, evening peak hours, and other surrounding off-peak periods). The vehicle fill level is a good indicator (full bus => peak hour) and can be used throughout the network.
• calculate the frequency over each period by dividing the duration of the period by the number of departures observed (6 departures in 3 hours = one bus every 30 minutes).