Clarification: Copy guiding principle from GTFS Realtime to GTFS

[barbeau]

A question recently came up - "is GTFS focused on passenger information?"

I tried to find the reference in the spec that says this, but couldn't.

Then I realized that, for some reason, this guiding principle is listed under GTFS Realtime but not GTFS.

GTFS Realtime CHANGES.md says that this principle applies to both GTFS and GTFS Realtime:

The spec is about passenger information.

Like GTFS before it, GTFS Realtime is primarily concerned with passenger information. That is, the spec should include information that can help power tools for riders, first and foremost. There is potentially a large amount of operations-oriented information that transit agencies might want to transmit internally between systems. GTFS Realtime is not intended for that purpose and there are potentially other operations-oriented data-standards that may be more appropriate.

This pull request copies the same guiding principle from GTFS Realtime to GTFS and updates the wording accordingly.

I think there is a legitimate debate over whether this should still be a guiding principle for GTFS, although I'd prefer to have that discussion in a separate issue.

IMHO it's pretty clear from the existing text that this guiding principle is intended for GTFS as well, and this changes focuses on making that clear to readers of the GTFS docs that don't review the GTFS Realtime documentation.

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