02b: Adding a route (using city method)
A train station often shows up in GTFS data as many stops, as they often have multiple IDs for bus, tram, train, metro, etc. GTFS2 offers a route creation method that helps you pick the origin and destination by using names instead of selecting from a potentially confusing set of stops. GTFS2 searches the database for matching strings and finds a route between stations.
See 02: Adding a route for the common steps to add a route.
Enter the names of the origin and destination, and give the route a name.
Important
The search using in this method of adding a route uses string matching. That means you should watch out for typos and other spelling challenges like: ü vs. ue (Germany)
Important
It may be tricky to find the names for your stations. For example, if you use 'Amsterdam' as in above example, it would use all other stations with 'Amsterdam' in their name, the main station is called "Amsterdam Centraal". After you created your entity you should verify the actual stations in use by the created route, and redo this process if they are incorrect:
