awesome-transit

official documentation site for the General Transit Feed Specification

Video provides an overview of of the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and why it is useful for transit agencies, riders, and policymakers

A free, online, self-paced course for learning about GTFS and GTFS-realtime

A series of lessons to help people utilize open transit data

GTFS-books

Comprehensive guides to GTFS and GTFS Realtime. These books were written by , and have been donated to and made open access

An interactive tutorial created by MBTA for GTFS static. A is available on GitHub as well as a of the Jupyter notebook

A video tutorial on setting up your own web-based mapping application, with no coding experience required

Additional Google-specific documentation of GTFS

Additional Transit app-specific documentation of GTFS

Additional Bing-specific documentation of GTFS

Additional Yandex-specific documentation of GTFS

Chatroom that includes channels #gtfs, #gtfs-validators #mobility-database #gtfs-realtime #gtfs_best-practices #gtfs-pathways #gtfs-fares #gtfs-flex #trb-transit-data

OpenTripPlanner

Community

NYC-based in-person/online hybrid meetup. includes many contributors to this repo

German Open Transport Meetup

online meetup of the German-speaking open transport community

German Open Transport Data Quality Meetup

Bimonthly online meetup of the German-speaking open transport community dedicated to data quality

JSON and CSV files that is a repository of 2000+ mobility datasets across the world. Contains contents of OpenMobilityData/TransitFeeds.com

Community editable list of many transit agency GTFS datasets. Also provides an API to access the data as JSON/GeoJSON and a playground to try out the data

A list of GTFS data in parts of Latin America. Must contact website maintainers directly to access feeds, as they're not publicly available

List of GTFS and feeds. the GTFS feeds and allows you to preview both and through the browser. Formerly TransitFeeds.com. it is end-of-life as of early 2022 with a shutdown date to be determined

CapMetrics

Historical vehicle locations for Austin's transit agency (CapMetro). Data is collected by , a Go daemon

Information and statistics on the transit systems of the United States, run by the Federal Transit Administration

Data platform for the French transport ecosystem

European long-distance transport operators (EU) (Unofficial)

Unofficial list of available API endpoints, GTFS feeds and client libraries

REST API for aggregated transit data for the United Kingdom. Fee-based access

REST API for real-time vehicle, route, stop, and arrival data for agencies that have puchased NextBus's hardware and/or software

REST API for journey planning, stop schedules, isochrones and lot more on US and EU. is the opensource engine behind the live API

REST API for aggregated bikeshare data from around the world. Powered by

– Propriety public transport management software by ( )

REST API for transit journey planning, realtime transit data and walk, cycle, scooter travel times

A collaborative platform for mapping transit systems, with an emphasis on their historical evolution. The data can be downloaded as GeoJSON or CSV from

The collaborative platform for mapping the world, including transport, transit, and routing data

GTFS-Hub

Community tested, probably quality/content enhanced, partially merged or filtered GTFS-feeds of (currently German) transport agencies. Maintained by

sample-gtfs-feed

An imaginary GTFS data set used for testing

transitfeed unit tests

Test data created for the original Google

Transitland GTFS and GTFS Realtime unit tests

For testing the library that handles GTFS and GTFS Realtime parsing and validation for Transitland:

gtfs-realtime-validator unit tests

Some are included and a large number of GTFS RT messages are defined via the gtfs-realtime-bindings library

OpenTripPlanner unit tests

Some are defined for the unit tests ( and )

GraphHopper Routing Engine

Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or server

gtfs-server

A web server, written in Rust that uses PostGIS as a backend to serve GTFS data via a HTTP endpoint

hafas-rest-api

– Expose a endpoint as a REST API

An open-source, scalable intermodal route planning engine, which allows clients to execute the route planning algorithm (as opposed to the server). Uses GTFS data

Mobroute is a general purpose FOSS public transportation router (e.g. trip planner) Go library and CLI that works by directly ingesting timetable (GTFS) data from transit agencies themselves (sourced from the ). It can be used to quickly run & test routing requests based on GTFS data on your device (via its CLI) or it can be embedded as a library to add GTFS routing to existing navigation apps

MOTIS

Multi Objective Travel Information System, written in C++ and Java. Can consume schedule timetables in the GTFS or HAFAS format as well as real time information in the GTFS-RT (and RISML, a propriatary format at Deutsche Bahn) as input data. For pedestrian routing (handled by Per Pedes Routing) and car routing (handled by OSRM) OpenStreetMap data is used

Navitia

is the opensource engine behind the live API

A Java app that consumes GTFS and GTFS-Realtime (along with ) and turns them into an easy to use REST API

An open source platform for multi-modal and multi-agency journey planning, as well as returning information about a multi-modal graph (using data sources such as GTFS and )

pyBikes

Software powering for worldwide bikeshare system info

Simple Transit Api

A simple way to get started with a GTFS api in Golang

Java application that can consume raw vehicle positions and generate prediction times in formats such as GTFS-realtime. Formerly known as "Transitime"

Community-run free and open public transport routing service

A webapp that lets transit agencies easily plan routes

Next Train API

Serves any GTFS feed as a JSON API. Transit agencies and developers alike can deploy the open source code to their own Heroku server

AC Transit RestroomFinder

Pinpoints the nearest authorized restroom for bus operator and field staff, using GPS and on-screen map

AC Transit Training and Education Department (TED) application

This application supports the District's training operations for transportation and maintenance employees, primarily in the positions of Bus Operators and Heavy Duty Coach Mechanics (Apprentice and Journey), although the system supports new courses and apprenticeship programs

AC Transit Customer Relations application (CusRel)

Public transit ticketing system for customer issues and feedback with: inter-departmental routing with notifications, department/person assigments, simple workflow, ticket searching, pre-canned reports, daily reminders and more

A cloud-based public transport software for line planning and public transport service optimisation

An open-source asset management platform for public transportation agencies

RidePilot

An open-source Computer Aided Scheduling and Dispatch (CASD) software system to meet the needs of small scale human service transportation agencies

TNExT

Transit Network Explorer Tool (TNExT) is a web-based software tool developed for the visualization, analysis, and reporting of regional and statewide transit networks in the state of Oregon

Route Trends ( , ) - An R Shiny app to ingest ridership time series, and return seasonal, trend, and residual components according to and forecasts including uncertainty based on those components. Sponsored by (Minneapolis-St. Paul)

TBEST (Transit Boardings Estimation and Simulation Tool) is an effort to develop a multi-faceted GIS-based modeling, planning and analysis tool which integrates socio-economic, land use, and transit network data into a platform for scenario-based transit ridership estimation and analysis. Funded by the Florida Department of Transportation. Free to use but not open-source

Bus Tracking GPS

Code for Miami prototype of a cheap open-source solution to track transit buses

Train departure Display

A replica, near real-time, miniature UK railway station train departure sign based upon a Raspberry Pi Zer0

Realtime and Schedule global public transport map and navigation software, written in Rust and Svelte

Realtime map of Austin's (CapMetro) public transit. Has no server/backend dependency at all and runs completely on GitHub pages

OpenTripPlanner Client GWT

A Google Web Toolkit-based web interface for OpenTripPlanner

OpenTripPlanner.js

A Javascript-based client for OpenTripPlanner (no longer under development)

OTP-UI React Component Library

React Javascript component library, which can be used to build trip planner webapps. See the for a demo

GTFS-realtime Alerts Producer Web Application

A Java-based web application for producing GTFS-realtime Service Alerts

HRT BUS Web app

HRT Bus API publishes real time bus data from Hampton Roads Transit through an application programming interface for developers to make apps from it

Transit-Map

Web app that animates vehicles (markers) on a map using the public transport timetables to interpolate their positions along the routes (polylines)

Transitive.js

Creates a customizable web map layer of transit routes using Leaflet or D3

Google I/O Transport Tracker

Shows shuttle arrival times for Google I/O conference, based on the open-source . Note: To implement this yourself, you need a

A virtual “trip aggregator” that assembles information on a wide variety of available modes: public transit, private, rail, rideshare, carpool, volunteer, paratransit, and walking and biking

Public transport real-time monitoring with WebSocket updates. Open-source

Realtime vehicle position for Greater Montreal & Toronto, Canada

A free web-based application to help you create GTFS files. Maintained by the National Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP)

Dede - An independent and universal passenger information system (PIS) mapping realtime movement. A message feed with Vehicle Position entities in the GTFS-Realtime format or the can be used as data source

MBTA tile-server

Scripts to create a Docker container that encapsulates all the elements necessary to develop map tiles for use on MBTA.com

Realtime tracking transit buses from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Open-source on

Tiramisu Transit

An adaptive mobile transit app that shows real-time bus arrival information developed and deployed by Carnegie Mellon University. No longer maintained

Custom realtime displays of all local transportation choices

A collaborative platform for mapping transit systems, with an emphasis on their historical evolution

Status of all worldwide bikeshare stations

Real-time Transit Tracking for Iowa City, Coralville and the University of Iowa. Combines three disparate transit systems into one UI

Really polished webapp with trip planner and route status for over 30 of cities

Real-time transit predictions based on actual travel times, vehicle locations, schedules and maps. Premium gives you access to a detailed history of schedules, vehicle locations, stop arrivals, schedule adherance, charts and graphs. For an additional fee custom queries can be run on this data

Mobile friendly web app which consumes GTFS feeds and displays both live and scheduled trips for stops. Launched with MBTA, YRT/Viva and Maryland MTA

Realtime vehicle position and arrivals and departure information for the Washington, D.C. region's WMATA Metrorail and Metrobus systems. WebApp, Android, and iOS apps avaliable

OneBusAway Apps - , , , , ,

OpenTripPlanner Android

An Android app for

OpenTripPlanner iOS

An iOS app for

opentripplanner-client-library

A Kotlin Multiplatform library for making API requests and parsing responses from an OpenTripPlanner v2 server for trip plans, bike rental info, and server metadata for Android, iOS, and web

FOSS data-provider-agnostic public transportation app that let's you route between locations using openly available public GTFS feeds (sourced from the ). Utilizing the , the Transito app lets you performs routing calculations right on your phone. Cross-platform app currently supporting Android & Linux

Transportr

An Android app that uses in order to connect to many different transport networks worldwide

Next Train - Connecticut

A React-native mobile app for searching train schedules published by the Shore Line East transit agency in Connecticut. Relies on a deployment of the

An Android app that provides trip planning, schedules, live departure times, and disruption information for transport authorities in Europe and beyond

Trufi App

A cross-platform Flutter app that uses

MACS Transit Android App

A bus tracker app for Android devices for the MACS Transit system in Fairbanks, Alaska. Uses RouteMatch APIs

Tiramisu Transit

An adaptive mobile transit app that shows real-time bus arrival information developed and deployed by Carnegie Mellon University. Written using Ionic framework. No longer maintained

Multimodal and real-time transit display software

Community driven trip planner with focus on user interaction, users can report anomalies, upload pictures, edit transit data and chat with other passengers

Allows you to add journey planning and turn-by-turn navigation for walking, cycling, scooting and transit into native iOS and Android apps

Interactive GTFS route and schedule animation (for U.S. cities) using Mapbox GL JS, Deck.gl and Transitland. Github repository

fastest-bus-analysis-in-the-west

A python Pandas script that combines Ridership/APC, Swiftly speed and dwell data, bus stop inventory, GTFS, and geospatial shapes to create a stop by stop, route by route, time grouping filterable dataset for cross-analyses. The dataset is then visualized in to help VTA Planners find places to make bus and rail network faster and more reliable through speedups methods like stop consolidation and dedicated lanes

gtfspy-webviz

Web application for animation and visualization of GTFS data using

A simple online converter for gtfs to geojson with a list of feeds

gtfs-visualizations

Open-source NodeJS application for visualizing the routes of GTFS datasets

Shows areas you can reach with public transport in a given time. Open-source , live at

Co-creative Planning of Transit Corridors using Accessibility-Based Stakeholder Engagement (shows route scenarios using )

Intermodal Mobility Information System including

Frequency visualization of subways and buses in New York City built using

An online on-time performance reporing & drill down tool using GTFS

An online example of how to host and update a webmap

An online example of how to create a transit website all from your gtfs

TNExT

Transit Network Explorer Tool (TNExT) is a web-based software tool developed for the visualization, analysis, and reporting of regional and statewide transit networks in the state of Oregon

Toronto Transit Explorer

A Java application that visualizes transit, biking and walking accessibility across the city of Toronto. Uses a modified version of for routing

Transit Vis

A visualization tool to display performance metrics derived from the King County Metro GTFS-RT feed (OneBusAway API). Viewable . Used for

TransitFlow

Animate GTFS data around the world using Processing and Transitland

Visualizes vehicles moving based on static GTFS data (and sometimes realtime data). Supports over 260 cities. Github account for geOps organization is

by - Visualization of public transport vehicles from all over the world. Collaborate with other users to get real-time updates even when it is not available from the agency. Based on a number of sources, including GTFS and GTFS-RT. (Previously known as Livemap24)

Interactive graphs that show how people use Boston's subway system

An interactive transportation planning game that lets players alter the NYC subway system to their heart's content

A very old fashioned but classic transit map creator

A modern and aesthetically pleasing transit map designer

An open source and simple metro map maker software

A modern, open source software that allows users to create, save, like, and share interactive transit maps with agents

Tool for generating railway maps and information panels in the styles of various cities' public transportation systems

A flexible web tool to visualize set systems using the metro map metaphor. Based on this

The industry-leading vector graphics software (requres membership plan)

A free desgn tool similar to Adobe Illustrator

An aestically pleasing Modern GIS software

Create and share custom maps with Google My Maps

Create and share custom maps with one of the the world's most detailed statelite applications

Worldwide reference map of urban rail transport (metros,trams,commuter rail) with detailed and up-to-date information

Worldwide map of railways using OpenStreetMap data

Another worldwide map of railways using OpenStreetMap data

-  A reference book of European railway maps that is available for purchase

A collection of railway maps covering Europe (especially Russia)

Website outlining maps showing the scales of tram systems around the world

Compare the timelines of Rapid Transit Projects around the world

Interactive Maps of the world's Metro systems

3d maps of metro systems across the world (uses data from Metrolinemap)

Interactive System Map detailing the  the present and future of different urban rail systems in Canada

- Map of all Passenger Rail in North America including (intercity rail, metros, trams and tourist lines)

Map of the real time location and schedule information for  Amtrak and Via trains

Interactive Maps of the Indian Main rail network

- This map shows the extent and ownership of rail lines in the United States, including passenger and freight lines

A series of maps covering all of the passenger rail networks in Brazil, Canada and France

A tool to easily Log, map and share your journeys by train

-   Detailed Australian railway maps from the national, state and city levels

Maps of railways in the USSR

Detailed maps of metro and tram networks of global cities (especially in France)

Photos of Railway Stations across the world

Aesthetically pleasing static maps of worldwide metros systems

Critiques and reviews of the design of transit maps from across the world

A map containing fixed-guideway transit around the world

An interactive map of Great Britain's rail network

Worldwide map of transit services (which have a GTFS Feed)

Interactive Map of German Rail infrastructure

Interactive Map of French Rail infrastructure

Schematic maps of UK and worldwide rail networks

An online Interactive map for the passenger railway transportation system of China, presenting station and rail information

a user-friendly, interactive map of Canada’s nearly 43,000-kilometre railway network

An Interactive Map with Train lines in North America using data from OpenStreetMap

Interactive Map of Mainline Rail in Japan

Specification for the General Transit Data Feed, or GTFS. Available in several languages

Best practices for producers of a GTFS feed

CGTFS

C library for reading static GTFS feeds. Supports reading unpacked feeds into application memory or into SQLite databases

RRRR Rapid Real-time Routing

RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm

just_gtfs

C++17 header-only library for reading and writing GTFS (used in ). Main features: fast reading and writing of GTFS feeds, support for , simple working with GTFS Date and Time formats

ESRI public-transit-tools

Tools for working with public transit data in ArcGIS (license for ArcGIS required)

GTFS Feed Parser

.Net/Mono implementation of a GTFS parser

Go GTFS Parser

A GTFS parsing library for Go

OneBusAway GTFS Modules

A Java-based library for reading, writing, and transforming public transit data in the GTFS format, including database support

gtfs-sequelize

Node.js library modeling the static GTFS using sequelize.js

gtfs-utils

– Utilities to process GTFS data sets (e.g., "flattening" & , computing arrival/departure times of trips)

gtfs-via-postgres

– Yet another tool to process GTFS using PostgreSQL

Node-GTFS

Loads transit data from GTFS files, unzips it and stores it to a SQLite database. Provides some methods to query for agencies, routes, stops and times

gtfs-schema

PostgreSQL schema for GTFS feeds

gtfs-via-postgres

– Yet another tool to process GTFS using PostgreSQL

ESRI public-transit-tools

Tools for working with public transit data in ArcGIS (license for ArcGIS required)

gtfsdb

Python library for converting GTFS files into a relational database

gtfs_functions

Python package with useful functions to create geo-spatial visualizations from GTFS feeds

gtfs-segments

Python package that represents GTFS data for buses in a concise tabular manner using segments

gtfslib-python

An open source library in python for reading GTFS files and computing various stats and indicators about Public Transport networks

gtfsman

Repository-like tool in Python to manage and update a huge number of GTFS feeds

gtfspy

Public transport network analysis and travel time computations using Python3. Compatible with Postgres/PostGIS, Oracle, MySQL, and SQLite. Used by

GTFS Kit

A Python 3.8+ tool kit for analyzing General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data. Supersedes GTFSTK

Make GTFS

A Python library to make GTFS feeds from basic route information

Mapzen GTFS

A Python GTFS library that supports reading individual GTFS tables, or constructing a graph to represent each agency in a feed

multigtfs

A Django application to import and export GTFS

partridge

A fast, forgiving Python GTFS reader built on pandas DataFrames

transit_service_analyst

A Python library to support transit service analysis

Collection of tools for GTFS in R

gtfsio

Fast and flexible functions to read and write GTFS in R

tidytransit

Use tidytransit to map transit stops and routes, calculate travel times and transit frequencies, and validate transit feeds. tidytransit reads the General Transit Feed Specification into tidyverse and simple features data frames

GTFS-viz

Ruby script that converts a set of GTFS files into a SQLite database + GeoJSONs (needed by the web application)

Chouette

Converts between French-Transmodel and GTFS

extract-gtfs-pathways

– Command-line tool to extract pathways as GeoJSON from a GTFS dataset

extract-gtfs-shapes

– Command-line tool to extract shapes as GeoJSON from a GTFS dataset

GTFS-OSM-Sync

A Java tool for synchronizing data in GTFS format with

gtfs-parser

The GTFS-PARSER library is a library to allow javascript to parse gtfs and create geojson on client or server

gtfs-service-area

Compute a transit service area from static GTFS. Results are output as single-layer .geojson files. Dockerized version of

GTFS-route-shapes

A Python script to generate a single geoJSON shape for each transit route in a GTFS archive

gtfs-to-geojson

Javascript tool that converts transit data in GTFS shapes and stops into geoJSON. This is useful for creating maps of transit routes

gtfs2gps

An R package that converts public transportation data in GTFS format to GPS-like records in a , where each row represents the timestamp of each vehicle at a given spatial resolution

gtfs2emis

An R package to estimate the emission levels of public transport vehicles based on General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data

gtsf

general transit (GTFS) simple (geographic) features (sf) in R. can be used to convert from GTFS to Shapefile, GeoJSON, and other formats through GDAL

hafas-generate-gtfs

– A Javascript tool to generate GTFS dumps from HAFAS endpoints

Hafas2GTFS

Hafas2GTFS converter written in Python, optimized for SBB HAFAS feeds

kml-to-gtfs-shapes

Javascript tool to convert polylines from a KML file into a GTFS shapes.txt file. Hosted on GitHub

NeTEx-to-GTFS Converter Java

Converts NeTEX datasets into GTFS datasets. The input NeTEx datasets are required to follow the Nordic NeTEx Profile

o2g

A simple tool to extract GTFS feed from OpenStreetMap

Open-Transport SYNTHESE Convertors

Converts French-Transmodel, SIRI, NETeX, HAFAS, HASTUS, VDV452, and more

onebusaway-gtfs-to-barefoot

A Java tool to create a mapfile from a GTFS file

onebusaway-vdv-modules

A Java library for working with transit data in the VDV format, including converting VDV-452 schedule data into GTFS

osm2gtfs

Turn OpenStreetMap data and schedule information into GTFS

transit_model

A Rust library to convert to/from the following formats: GTFS, NTFS (for Navitia, see ), TransXChange (UK specification), KV1 (NL specification), NeTEx (EU specification)

transloc-gtfs-rectifier

Python application that attempts to assign GTFS stop_ids to IDs using ( doesn't provide GTFS in their API)

Transmodel and IFF to GTFS

Imports and syncs (Transmodel) BISON Koppelvlak1, IFF (a format written by HP/EDS, somewhat similiar to ATCO CIF) to import timetables of the railway networks. The internal pseudo-NETeX datastructure allows to export to GTFS and there are proof-of-concepts to export to other formats such as NETeX, GTFS and IFF

Transporter-Project transxchange-to-gtfs

TransXChange to GTFS converter written in Objective-C

The TXC TransXChange publisher is a standalone software tool that can be used to publish TransXChange compliant XML documents in a format that’s easy to read and print

R package that converts UK format TransXchange (bus, metro, tram, ferry) and CIF (rail) timetables to GTFS

SaaS (Software as a Service) platform to create, edit and publish schedules in GTFS format

bus-router

Python script that generates missing shapes.txt for GTFS using routing from or

gtfs-blocks-to-transfers

A Python tool to convert GTFS blocks, defined by setting into a series of

GTFS Diff is a specification created by transport.data.gouv.fr and aims at providing a simple and unified way to express differences between GTFS files

GTFS Editor

A (self-hosted) web-based GTFS editing framework. (Note: this project has been deprecated in favor of .)

GTFS Editor for Vagrant

Quickly set up the GTFS editor (above) using

static-GTFS-manager

A (self-hosted) browser-based user interface for creating, editing, exporting static GTFS (see )

TransitWand

An open source web and mobile application for collecting transit data. Use it to create GTFS feeds, capture passenger counts or generate GIS datasets

IBI Data Tools

A web application that handles GTFS editing, validating, quality checking, and deploying to OpenTripPlanner. (Combines and builds upon the functionality of the deprecated and .)

IBI Data Tools Infra

A tool to quickly setup and run a local instance of the above IBI Data Tools project

An entirely browser-based tool to view GTFS feeds. Use it to view routes, stops, timetables, etc

pfaedle

Precise map-matching for GTFS using OpenStreetMap data

GTFS shape mapfit

Python tool that fits GTFS shape files and stops to a given OSM map file. Uses for the matching

A free web-based application to help you create GTFS files. Maintained by the National Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP)

gtfs-station-builder

UI tool to help build the internal structure of stations (including pathways.txt)

GTFS Text-to-Speech Tester

A command-line tool that reads GTFS stop names out loud using Text-to-Speech to determine which need Text-to-Speech values for tts_stop_name in stops.txt

A free tool that helps transit agencies easily create, manage, and export their transportation data in GTFS-Flex format

Tool generate realtime transit data

combine_gtfs_feeds

A Python tool to combine multiple gtfs feeds into one feed/dataset

GTFS Kit

A Python 3.8+ tool kit for analyzing and merging General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data.

Transitfeed merge function

A Python library with a function to merge two different GTFS feeds

gtfsmerge

A Python Script to merge GTFS ZIP archives into one

GTFS Kit

A Python 3.6+ tool kit for analyzing General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data. Supersedes

gtfstools

A set of convenient tools for editing and analysing transit feeds in GTFS format in R

transit_service_analyst

A Python library to support transit service analysis

Peartree

A Python library for converting transit data into a directed graph for network analysis

R5: Rapid Realistic Routing on Real-world and Reimagined networks

A Java-based routing engine developed by Conveyal for multimodal (transit/bike/walk/car) networks. It currently plans many trips over a time window for scenario planning and analytics purposes. A related R wrapper package ( ) is developed independently by IPEA. See also the performance comparison from Higgins et al. (2022), linked below

tidytransit

An R package to read GTFS data into tibbles and simple features dataframes to map transit stops and routes, calculate travel times and transit frequencies, and validate transit feeds

transitr

An R package for constructing and modelling a transit network in real time to obtain vehicle ETAs

transit-intensity

A simple project for measuring transit intensity written in Go

Busbuzzard

Inference of probabilistic schedules from empirical data about transit vehicles

ESRI ArcGIS Public Transit Tools (GTFS)

Tools for working with public transit data in ArcGIS

GTFS-to-Chart

Creates stringline charts showing all vehicles on a transit route from GTFS data

Analyse, monitor and maintain GTFS data ( )

Public Transit Nework Analysis is a open source system for finding and aggregating information about public transportation lines mapped in OSM

Generate human-readable timetables in HTML or PDF format directly from GTFS

Timetable Kit

An open source Python 3.10 module and scripts depending on , designed to create complex printed/PDF timetables with flexible layouts. Currently only working out of the box for Amtrak's GTFS, but under active development

TimeTablePublisher (TTPUB)

A web publishing system developed by TriMet that allows a transit agency to examine, modify, and transform raw scheduling data into easy-to-read timetables for customer information purposes

Conveyal's gtfs-validator

A Java-based GTFS validator based on the OneBusAway GTFS Modules, runs in Java and is faster than the Google provided one

Conveyal's gtfs-lib

Conveyal's successor to their own , a Java-based library for loading and saving GTFS feeds of arbitrary size with disk-backed storage

Google's feedValidator

Google-supported Python-based GTFS validator

GTFS Data Package Specification

A Data Package specification with validation accomplished with Good Tables. Includes a data package, schemas, tests, and uses South East Queensland GTFS data as an example

gtfstidy

A Go-based tool to tidy and validate GTFS feeds

gtfs-validator-api

This Python package is a thin wrapper around that handles intermediate files produced and finds gtfs-validator's output file so it can be given a specific name or returned as a string

GTFSVTOR

An open-source GTFS validator implemented in Java licensed under GPLv3 maintained by

MobilityData's gtfs-validator

A open-source GTFS validator canonically following the GTFS spec implemented in Java licensed under Apache v2.0 maintained by

Transit schedule and GTFS validation platform by that includes a free, web-based GTFS validator based on

Transit App's gtfs-fares-v2-validator

A Python tool that validators GTFS-Fares-v2 data based on the

Transport Validator

An open-source validator implemented in . Used by the

gtfs-accessiblity-validator

Validates the presence of accessiblity-related fields and files in a GTFS file. Can be a command line tool or node.js package

Automatically generated documentation for GTFS-realtime, generated from the official and including some extensions

gtfs-realtime-bindings

The official bindings for Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, and Ruby generated from the official

GTFS-realtime Exporter

A Java-based tool that assists in producing and sharing a GTFS-relatime feed

GTFS-realtime Alerts Producer Demo

A Java-based demo project for producing GTFS-realtime Service Alerts

GTFS-realtime Alerts Producer Web Application

A Java-based web application for producing GTFS-realtime Service Alerts

GTFS-realtime TripUpdates & VehiclePositions Producer Demo

A Java-based demo project for producing GTFS-realtime TripUpdates (estimated arrivals) and Vehicle Positions

GTFS-realtime Vehicle Positions Consumer/Visualizer Demo

A Java-based demo project for consuming a GTFS-realtime Vehicle Positions feed and displaying this info on a map

gtfs-realtime-validator

A GTFS Realtime validation tool originally developed by the at the University of South Florida and now maintained by

Parses a GTFS-RealTime feed into an SQL database (used in )

gtfsrdb

A Python tool that supports reading and archiving GTFS-realtime feeds into a database

retro-gtfs

A Python application that collects real-time data from the Nextbus API and archives it into the GTFS format (i.e., retrospective GTFS)

SIRI to GTFS-realtime

A Java-based command-line utility to convert from the to GTFS-realtime

OrbCAD SQL Server to GTFS-realtime

A Java-based command-line utility that extracts vehicle positions and trip updates information from an OrbCAD SQL Server and exports them to the GTFS-realtime TripUpdates and VehiclePositions formats

NextBus API to GTFS-realtime

A Java-based command-line utility to convert from the to GTFS-realtime. Note that NextBus now directly offers a GTFS-realtime API for their products. See and

Syncromatics API to GTFS-realtime

A Java-based command-line utility to convert from the format to GTFS-realtime TripUpdates and VehiclePositons

KV6,15,17, and ARNU to GTFS-realtime

Java-based tool to process incoming KV6,15,17 and ARNU and match them to static transit data present in a RID integration database. It then proceeds to export this data as ARNU RITinfo, GTFS(realtime) and KV78turbo

WMATA BusPositions API to GTFS-realtime

Java-based tool to convert from WMATA's and Alert RSS feeds from to GTFS-realtime TripUpdates, VehiclePositions, and Alerts feeds

SEPTA API to GTFS-realtime

Java-based tool to convert to GTFS-realtime

CTA API to GTFS-realtime

Java-based tool to convert to GTFS-realtime

Detroit DOT to GTFS-realtime

Extract real-time info from TransitMaster installation (database) and convert to GTFS-realtime

Live Transit Event Trigger

Extracts data from OrbCAD database and export as GTFS-realtime

SoundTransit to GTFS-realtime

Convert text file feed from to GTFS-realtime

Civic Transit

Screen-scrapes TransitMaster WebWatch installation to produce a GTFS-realtime feed

Java application that can consume raw vehicle positions and generate prediction times in formats such as GTFS-realtime. Formerly known as "Transitime"

gtfs-realtime-translators

A Python-based tool to translate custom arrival API formats to GTFS-realtime. As of July 2019 it supports LA Metro and SEPTA

Transloc API to GTFS-realtime

A Node.js based tool to convert the Transloc API to GTFS-realtime

hafas-gtfs-rt-feed

– A Javascript tool to generate a GTFS Realtime feed from a HAFAS endpoint

GTFS-realtime to SIRI-Lite

A webserver to convert multiple GTFS-RT feeds to a SIRI-Lite API

bus_kalman

A Kalman Filter used to interpolate bus travel times using NYC MTA real-time data

Concentrate

Combines realtime transit information from multiple sources into single output files. Maintained by

gtfs-realtime-test-service

A tool for mocking GTFS-realtime feed content (e.g., for use in testing a GTFS-realtime consuming application)

GTFS-realtime Munin Plugin

Provides a plugin for logging information about a GTFS-realtime feed

GTFS-realtime Nagio Plugin

Provides a plugin for monitoring a GTFS-realtime feed

GTFS-realtime Printer

Java-based utility to print out information from a GTFS-realtime file or URL

gtfs-rt-admin

An admin tool for managing GTFS-RT service alerts (JavaScript and Java)

gtfs-rt-differential-to-full-dataset

– Javascript tool to transform a continuous GTFS Realtime stream of incrementality data into a dump

gtfs-rt-dump

Converts protocol buffer format to plain text for easy viewing of a GTFS-realtime feed in plain text (for debugging purposes)

– Web app to inspect & analyze any (CORS-enabled) GTFS Realtime feed. Open-source on

GTFS Data Pipeline for TfNSW Bus Datasets

A data pipeline developed for the TfNSW's GTFS Static and Realtime datasets. The datasets generated using the pipeline have been used to validate the performance of TfNSW's Transit Signal Priority Request via Public Transport Information and Priority System (PTIPS)

manual-gtfsrt

A Go-based tool that serves a GTFS-RT feed created from editable JSON

print-gtfs-rt-cli

– Javascript tool to read a GTFS Realtime feed from stdin, print human-readable or as JSON

Uses GTFS and GTFS-RT vehicle position feed generating an estimated transition time it takes for each vehicle to move from scheduled stop to scheduled stop recording these an "observed_stop_time" table. These records can later be used to train a machine learning model to make vehicle travel predictions. Created by TriMet as part of

transit-feed-quality-calculator

A Java project that uses the to assess the quality of a large number of transit feeds, fetching the feed URLs from a global directory ( )

Transit Network Model

A tool to generate predictions using GTFS-realtime VehiclePositions, a particle filter, and a Kalman Filter

Analyse, monitor and maintain GTFS Realtime data

Useful Performance Metrics for GTFS-Realtime

SIRI API

Java classes generated from the v1.0 and v1.3 schemas

SIRI 2.0 API

Java classes generated from the v2.0 schemas

SIRI to GTFS-realtime

A Java-based command-line utility to convert from the to GTFS-realtime

Automatically generated documentation from the (incredibly well) annotated SIRI 2.0 Schema Definition

King County Metro Legacy AVL to SIRI

Java-based tool to convert Legacy AVL format to SIRI

SIRI REST Client

An open-source Android library for interacting with the RESTful SIRI interface for real-time transit data, such as that currently being used by the

SIRI 1.3 POJOs (Android-compatible)

Android-compatible Plain Old Java Objects (POJOSs) used for data binding (deserliazing XML/JSON) responses for SIRI v1.3 APIs. Used by the

pysiri2validator

Simple validator for SIRI 2.0 written in Python 3

Edwig

A golang server for real-time public transport data exchange, using the SIRI protocol

Netherlands implementation of SIRI

Alliance for Parking Data Standards: formed by the , the , and the . APDS is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to develop, promote, manage, and maintain a uniform global standard that will allow organizations to share parking data across platforms worldwide

EU data standard for road traffic and travel information

General Bikeshare Feed Specification: open data standard for real-time information about bikeshare, scootershare, mopedshare, and carshare

gbfs R package

Functions to interface with GBFS feeds in R, allowing users to save and accumulate tidy .rds datasets for specified cities/bikeshare programs

MDS

Mobility Data Specification: A format to implement realtime data sharing, measurement and regulation for municipalities and mobility as a service providers. It is meant to ensure that governments have the ability to enforce, evaluate and manage providers. Maintained by the

A general purpose XML format designed for the exchange of complex static transport data among distributed systems managed by the

Transit Operational Data Standard: standard format for representing transit schedules used by drivers, dispatchers, and planners to carry out transit operations

TOMP

Transport Operator Mobility-as-a-service Provider API: API standard for use by transport operators and mobility-as-a-service providers for operator discovery, trip planning, end user interaction, booking, and payment

CurbLR

A specification for curb regulations

Dyno-Demand

A GTFS-based travel demand data format focusing on individual passenger suitable for dynamic network modeling developed by San Francisco County Transportation Authority, LMZ LLC, and UrbanLabs LLC

Dyno-Path

(Under development - see ) Data for individual passenger

GTFS-plus

A GTFS-based transit network format for suitable for dynamic transit modeling developed by Puget Sound Regional Council, UrbanLabs LLC, LMZ LLC, and San Francisco County Transportation Authority

GTFS-ride

An open, fixed-route transit ridership data standard developed through a partnership between the Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon State University

GTFS-stat

An extension to a GTFS transit network with additional files that contain performance data developed by UrbanLabs LLC and San Francisco County Transportation Authority

GMNS

General Modeling Network Specification: A format for sharing routable road network files designed to be used in multi-modal static and dynamic transportation planning and operations models. Volpe/FHWA partnership with Zephyr Foundation

General Travel Network Specification: A planned data specification for sharing travel demand model networks

IXSI

interface for exchanging information between a travel information system and a sharing system (carshare, bikeshare)

MTLFS

Managed and Tolled Lanes Feed Specification: Proposal for a schema that comprise the Managed and Tolled Lanes Tolling Feed Specification (MTLFS) and defines the fields used in all of those files developed by

MaaS API

A set of open documents and test suite that defines a MaaS-compatible API

The objective of this research is to develop standards and/or guidance to be used and adopted by the transportation community in collecting, managing, and sharing static and real-time data for transportation planning and operations

OMX: The Open Matrix data file format

A structured collection of two-dimensional array objects and associated metadata, for possible use in the transportation modeling industry

OJP

Open Journey Planner

OSDM

Open Sales and Distribution Model: Aims to substantially simplify the booking process for customers of rail trips and to lower complexity and distribution costs for distributors and railway carriers. Contains a specification of an offline model and on-line API. Maintained by the

Appears to be working on a data standard for car share and transportation network companies (TNCs) / rideshare

shared-row

A specification for right-of-way (ROW) for a SharedStreets Reference

The objective of this research is to develop technical specifications for transactional data for entities involved in the provision of demand-responsive transportation. Expected completion date is late 2018

TIDES

Transit ITS Data Exchange Specification (TIDES) is a proposed effort to create standard data structures, APIs, and data management tools for historical transit ITS data including AVL, APC and AFC Data

When(ish) is my bus? Data and code

The data and code (R) behind Whenish is my bus? Data includes three days of historical vehicle positions and the survey results

Discussion of options for transforming legacy AVL system data into the GTFS-realtime format

Discusses some of the challenges of an open data format like GTFS and the GTFS Best Practices that were launched in early 2017 to help address data quality

Discuss the shortfalls in GTFS-realtime v1.0 and the improvements in v2.0

Provides a general introduction to technology used to track vehicles

A collection of transportation-related data and tools for the San Francisco Bay Area and other cities in North America, originally collected and discussed at a 2018 Transit Week Event at ARUP in San Francisco

Using GTFS and GTFS Realtime to provide continuous realtime updates

Experiment in Chicago, IL showed modest increase in ridership when riders had access to real-time info via text message or email

Paper attempts to answr the question of "how do we communicate uncertainty in transit predictions?" Explains the problem, existing solutions and designs a

Experiments in Seattl,e WA showed that riders perceived shorter bus wait times when they had access to real-time info via mobile apps

Controlled experiment in Tampa, FL showed that riders with access to real-time info via mobile apps perceived nearly 2 minute reduction in wait times compared to riders without real-time info. Riders with real-time info also had decreases in anxiety and frustration and better reception of agency

Experiment in NYC showed that ridership increased on long routes when real-time info was made available to riders

(2018) - An overview of many different research studies looking at the benefits of real-time transit information

Methology using Uber's H3 spatial index and machine learning to identify areas of "similar" public transit service quality in cities. Source code available

Compares software tools for calculating accessibility by walking and public transit including ArcGIS Pro, Emme, R5R, and OpenTripPlanner

Presents a method for extracting transit performance metrics from a General Transit Feed Specification’s Real-Time (GTFS-RT) component and aggregating them to roadway segments. Used with , viewable

APTA's discussion of the benefits and challenges of open transit data (a short summary of the below TCRP report)

(2015) - A comprehensive report looking at the benefits and challenges of open transit data

(2020) - A report designed to help agencies make decisions about sharing their data, including how to evaluate benefits, costs, and risks

The objective of this research is to develop technical specifications for transactional data for entities involved in the provision of demand-responsive transportation. Expected completion date is late 2018

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