Canberra Metro Light Rail: Real-Time Trip Updates

ACT Government Open Data provides real-time trip updates from the Google Transit Feed Service (GTFSR) for the Capital Metro light rail service in Canberra. The dataset contains detailed stop-level arrival and departure predictions, delays, and schedule relationships. Columns such as arrivalDelay, departureDelay, and timestamp allow for monitoring service performance and passenger information.

Use Cases

• Predicting passenger wait times using arrivalDelay and departureDelay.
• Monitoring real-time service adherence using timestamp and tripScheduleRelationship.
• Analyzing stop-level performance patterns using stopID and stopSequence.
• Identifying cancelled trips or schedule deviations using updateDeleted and tripUpdateSchedulerelationship.

Strengths

• Provides real-time operational data, as indicated by the GTFSR (Google Transit Feed Service - Realtime) source.
• Published by an authoritative government source (ACT Government Open Data, author TCCS).
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).

Limitations

• Conflicting metadata: one source lists a last update date in 2026, which is a future date and suggests a potential data quality issue.
• Incomplete metadata: row counts and dataset size are unknown across all platforms.
• Column names contain apparent typos (e.g., 'depatureTime', 'depatureDelay'), which may indicate data entry errors.

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Open Data, Transport Canberra & City Services (TCCS)

Collection Method

Automated feed from the Google Transit Feed Service - Realtime (GTFSR) for the Capital Metro light rail.

Freshness

2026-05-24 14:15:20.655049

Geography

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT)