c-oreills / londoncommute

London Bus Commute calculator

Tool to work out which bus stops you can reach directly from a radius around an initial bus stop.

Generates a .kml file which can be opened in Google Earth/Maps to see what areas you could commute directly from on a bus.

Motivation

I currently always get a seat on my bus commute, and always having a seat means more time to spend coding side projects twice a day. I want to find out where else I can commute from and keep this project time intact. This project was created in a few such coding sessions.

Setup

pip install -r requirements.txt

Sign up for TFL api access and download the bus stops and bus routes csvs. Save these to stops.csv and routes.csv

Usage

./main.py name radius

• name is the name of the bus stop you wish to commute to
• radius is the distance, in metres, you're willing to walk to another bus stop nearby, from either the initial bus stop or any of the destination stops

Output will be saved to out.kml

Example usage

./main.py "EPWORTH STREET" 700