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A GTFS feed is a group of text files that contains infrequently changing transit data, like stops, routes, trips, and other schedule data. Transit agencies typically update their GTFS feed every few months.

GTFS Realtime consists of three binary files that contain realtime vehicle positions, realtime arrival information, and service alerts. Transit agencies typically update these files every minute.

former TransitFeeds) - List of GTFS/GTFS-realtime data feeds from around the world. If you're trying to get realtime data for some agency, this is a good place to start.

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

A series of lessons to help people utilize open transit data.

stand-alone Docker image is available on GitHub as well as a hosted/no-install version of the Jupyter notebook.

A community wiki for transit planners. Like this repo, but better.

NYC-based meetup for those interested in this repo. Speaker list includes many contributors to this repo.

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.

former TransitFeeds) - List of GTFS/GTFS-realtime data feeds from around the world. If you're trying to get realtime data for some agency, this is a good place to start.

Formerly the definitive directory of GTFS feed URLs. Shutdown in 2016. But 93 GB of data from 2008 to 2016 is available upon request.

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

GTFS datasets for French transit systems.

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 over 60 transit systems in the United States that have purchased TransLoc's AVL hardware and software.

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, isocrhons and lot more on US and EU. Navitia is the opensource engine behind the live API.

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

Propriety public transport management software by HaCon (list of endpoints)

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

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

A Java app that consumes GTFS and GTFS-Realtime (along with other formats) 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 OpenStreetMap).

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

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.

Provides public transportation data for North America in a single, integrated call and response format. The data is provided in stream-parsable XML and JSON formats. Open-source on Google Code. Hosted version at www.transitcast.com requires payment.

A webapp that lets transit agencies easily plan routes.

An open-source asset management platform for public transportation agencies. Open-source on Github.

GitHub](https://github.com/metrotransit/route-trends)) - An R Shiny app to ingest ridership time series, and return seasonal, trend, and residual components according to STL methodology and forecasts including uncertainty based on those components. Sponsored by Metro Transit (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.

Custom realtime displays of all local transportation choices

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

Status of all worldwide bikeshare stations

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

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

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

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.

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. Open-source on Github.

Public transport real-time monitoring with WebSocket updates.

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.

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).

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

source code)*](https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android), Fire Phone (source code), iOS (source code), Windows Phone (source code), Windows 8 (source code), Google Glass GDK (source code), Alexa skill (source code)

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

Real-time transit maps for over 100 transit systems.

Multimodal and real-time transit display software.

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

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

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

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

by Veridict - 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).

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

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

Shows areas you can reach with public transport in a given time. Open-source on GitHub, live at https://www.mapnificent.net/.

A GTFS feed is a group of text files that contains infrequently changing transit data, like stops, routes, trips, and other schedule data. Transit agencies typically update their GTFS feed every few months.

Best practices for producers of a GTFS feed.

Converts French-Transmodel, SIRI, NETeX. See Chouette.mobi website for more info.

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

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

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

A web-based GTFS validator that runs both feedValidator and gtfs-validator on uploaded GTFS files.

Automatically generated documentation for GTFS-realtime, generated from the official GTFS-realtime protocol buffer specification and including some extensions.

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

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

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

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.

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

Formed by the International Parking Institute (IPI), the British Parking Association (BPA), and the European Parking Association (EPA), 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. APDS Version 1.0 documents are here.

A set of open documents and test suite that defines a MaaS-compatible API (e.g., a MaaS Transport Service Provider Booking API).

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.

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.

A planned data specification for sharing travel demand model networks.

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

A series of lessons to help people utilize open transit data.

stand-alone Docker image is available on GitHub as well as a hosted/no-install version of the Jupyter notebook.

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.

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 better interface for letting users know when to arrive at the bus stop.

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.

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

A comprehensive report looking at the benefits and challenges of open transit data.

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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