ROAM - Rail Opal Assignment Model

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#1

This dataset provides an indicator of historic rail occupancy for individual rail services from July 2019. Data included in ROAM - Rail Opal Assignment Model - includes Sydney Trains (T1 - T9) and Metro (Metro North West line) services.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au/dataset/roam-rail-opal-assignment-model
#2

have you guys thought about compressing these? either as a zip file, or on-the-fly in the webserver?

#3

i get that “Rail” includes non-cityrail/non-railcorp modes like Sydney Metro. but why doesn’t “Rail” include “Light Rail”?

:stuck_out_tongue: is it because “Light Rail” should be called “Tram”?

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#4

Hi Jayen,

Light rail data will be made available in due course.

#5

Thanks @jayen for the suggestion. We have decided to leave it as text files.

#6

you can serve them as text files and have them compressed or pre-compressed on the web server. so, data consumers will see them as text file, but they’ll download 10x faster and cost 10x less to host and transfer.

#7

Thanks to feedback, we are refreshing the ROAM files – we will advise when they have been refreshed (We estimate this will be completed by COB 18 September 2020).

Once refreshed there will be a new row per trip segment indicating occupancy for the whole train set.

We will update here once we are aware that all files are refreshed.

#8

The ROAM files have been updated and now include an “all passenger” occupancy band.

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