This is an OpenTripPlanner network graph for planning trips, by car or public transport, between places in Wales - including where these trips involve a short journey entirely within England. (It likely also works well enough for planning trips between places in Wales and a small number of English towns just the other side of the border.)
The map shows bus and train routes included in the latest graph, giving a rough idea of the region included.
The graph file was last updated at 07:20 GMT on 25 March 2024. (The graph should update weekly.)
Download the latest release of the Wales-ish OTP graph here. You’ll need to download the otp_and_graph.zip asset.
You can then start OpenTripPlanner using run-otp.bat (under
Windows) or run-otp.sh (under Linux or macOS). Eventually it’ll
print “Started listener bound to [0.0.0.0:8080]” and you’ll be able to
access the planner at http://localhost:8080
.
(You’ll need install Java 17. See the OTP documentation for more information.)
You can see the code used to download source data and generate this graph here.
The graph.obj graph file is made available under the ODbL v1.0 by Adam Watkins as part of the Wales-ish OTP graph project.
The graph file contains:
The graph file is provided without any warranty of any kind and without any endorsement by any of the individuals or organisations named above, for any purpose.
If you provide a routing service or similar using the graph file you should make sure that the above attributions are stated clearly. If you produce a set of routing instructions using such a routing service, these likely form a “derived database” and should also be provided under the ODbL v1.0, again with the attributions above attached.
otp.jar is a copy of the version of OpenTripPlanner used to generate the graph file; it is released under the LGPL v3.0 (or later). Again, it is provided without any warranty of any kind and without any endorsement, for any purpose.
A small number of journeys, departing on Tuesday morning the following week, are tested every time that the graph is built. The results from the latest update of the graph are shown below.
Description | Car | Public |
---|---|---|
Aberdare to Glynneath | 0h23m | 1h 4m |
Abergavenny to Pontypridd | 0h37m | 2h20m |
Bala to Cardiff | 3h41m | 3h58m |
Bangor Pier to Great Orme | 0h47m | 1h41m |
Blaengarw to Bridgend | 0h36m | 3h 9m |
CP2 to Secret Garden Cafe | 0h 7m | 0h 9m |
Caerphilly to Cwmafan | 0h54m | 2h24m |
Cardiff to Bala | 3h40m | 4h57m |
Cardiff to Sheffield | N/A | N/A |
Cardigan to Trawsfynydd | 2h52m | 4h30m |
Chirk to Walton | 1h33m | 3h38m |
Grangetown Library to UHW A&E | 0h23m | 0h59m |
Lampeter to Llandovery | 0h32m | 2h54m |
Llangadog to Rhayader | 1h 2m | 3h19m |
Llangollen to Ruthin | 0h29m | 1h 7m |
Merthyr to Cardiff | 0h46m | 1h18m |
Pontsticill to the Naughty Stone | 1h 4m | 1h26m |
Rhosllanerchrugog to Denbigh | 0h59m | 1h54m |
Swansea to Bargoed | 1h20m | 3h49m |
Swansea to Wrexham | 3h35m | 6h19m |
Treharris to Gellideg | 0h21m | 0h54m |
Whitland to Cardigan | 0h44m | 2h13m |
This project developed out of a NHS Welsh Modelling Collaborative hackathon, with the support of colleagues across NHS Wales including James Cooke of the Welsh Ambulance Service.
It depends entirely on the work done by OpenStreetMap contributors, Malcolm Morgan (University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies) and UK2GTFS contributors, Traveline, the osmium developers, and of course the OpenTripPlanner developers.
Important inspiration included the graphite project produced as part of a piece of work by the ONS Data Campus. Also of note is the OTP4GB project and other work by ODI Leeds.