How to read Miccolis timetables

Miccolis is the transport agency which runs public transport in Matera and other cities. You can find Miccolis timetables on their website. This guide is to explain how information for OpenStreetMap can be extracted from these timetables.

Route directions

Routes usually have two directions and each direction is an open line. The first and the last ends of a direction line are in bold and are sometimes indicated as capolinea in the 4th column of the timetable.

• create one relation route_master with two members corresponding to the two directions;
• for each direction create a relation of type route.

Stop name and id

A stop is identified by a pole number (Palo n.) and the name of the street where the stop is (percorso).

• create two nodes for platform and stop as described here;
• the name of the stop is the value in "percorso" while ref is the name of the pole (if any);
• the id of a stop is generated by OSM automatically; we will use this id in gtfs files.

Times

These timetables report just the first time of a day for a given stop and route. Frequency (Frequenza) is given in the top-right corner. In order to build GTFS stop_times, you have to add frequency to time value.

Variants

There are usually three kinds of trips for a given route:

• working days;
• non working days;
• summer working days;

How routes and times change is explained in the boxes around the actual timetable.