@sam from what I gathered at #OpenTransport2025 Transitous is starting to consider NetEx, but if I understood it correctly, they want to translate that to GTFS, which seems like shooting yourself in the foot.

I suspect that it has partly to do with the fact that actually parsing NetEx/SIRI is complicated, I’ve found people significantly less capable of dealing with the complexity and nuance of XML, especially with the fact elements can be modified with attributes.

Programmers seem to want everything to be JSON, and for data to be as flat as possible. Which is why I suspect that the CSV-based GTFS is more palatable to many. “Is there a standard relational database mapping for NetEx?” Was a question actually asked at one of the talks, after looking at the increasingly complex nested structures that DB InfraGO was valiantly producing.