TwoMinutes

Two Minute Introduction to OTP

Intent is to get OTP running on your system with pre-built binaries and data (for Portland, Oregon), so you can see OTP running locally quickly (goal: less than 10 minutes, network delays downloading things aside).

1. Download http://maps5.trimet.org/otp-dev/otp.zip (~90 megs). BTW, otp.zip is packaged nightly from the latest OTP source code.

2. Unzip the contents to the / directory (or C:\ for Windows users). This will create a /otp directory with the pre-built OTP binaries.

   NOTE: it's very important to have the pre-built web app run from /otp (or C:\otp) directory. If you want to run from another location, you'll need to edit the file WEB-INF/classes/data-sources.xml within /otp/webapps/opentripplanner-api-webapp.war.

3. Download pre-built Graph.org file from http://maps5.trimet.org/otp-dev/Graph.obj (~300 megs ... do a mouse right-click, then 'Save link as...')

4. Move Graph.obj to /otp/Graph.obj

5. Open a command shell (cmd.exe on Windows); From here on, we'll be typing things into the shell, including starting OTP with the start-server script.

6. Type: java -version into the command prompt. You should see something like 'java version "1.6.0_1"'. If you lack a version of java (or if you're running a version lower than 1.6) you will need to download a java environment from http://java.sun.com. Latest java 1.6 JRE or JDK is recommended (no experience with java 1.7 yet, although it should work fine). Again, java 1.6 is usually installed on most PCs (look in c:\Program Files) and Macs.

7. cd to /otp/

8. bin/start-server.sh (or bin\start-server.bat for Windows users).

   NOTE: if you're running on Tomcat 7.0.x you'll need to edit the web.xml. See: https://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner/issues/403

9. Open http://localhost:8080/opentripplanner-webapp in a web browser.

10. To kill OTP, you can either hit 'control-C' or close the command shell.

See the 5 minute detailed dive-in for instructions on how to build your own OTP Graph.obj...