Transit Agencies Providing GTFS Data

Notice: GTFS Data Exchange Shutting Down

I started GTFS Data Exchange in 2008 to encourage adoption of the GTFS specification when barely a dozen transit agencies were sharing schedule data. Since then, much has changed as there are over a thousand agencies from almost every country around the world publishing GTFS data.

Recently the Secretary of the US DOT wrote a letter advocating broad GTFS contribution and a national registry of GTFS, coming one step shy of requiring it from all agencies. The World Bank has also heavily advocated and assisted international adoption of GTFS. That these sorts of organizations have a default expectation of open schedule data was unthinkable in 2008. I'm proud of all the transit community has accomplished, and excited about what's next. Closing gtfs-data-exchange will pave the way for the next chapter of open transit data.

What's next for the Transit Community?

https://transit.land/ has steadily been growing as a reference spot for worldwide GTFS data, and the spot for transit agencies to connect with developers. It is also built to expose schedule data from a single consistent database which makes it even easier for developers to access schedule information. Most importantly though, Transitland has a corporate sponsor Mapzen, so developers can rely on it whereas gtfs-data-exchange has always been a side project, intermittently available and sometimes neglected.

http://transitfeeds.com/ also has a comprehensive list of GTFS feeds, and is built on a much more open and transparent community contribution process via Github.

Timeline for shutting down GTFS Data Exchange:

April 1, 2016 - Feed registry and file uploads disabled
May 1, 2016 - Automatic feed updates disabled
July 1, 2016 - API access to feeds disabled.
Sept 1, 2016 - GTFS-Data-Exchange will switch to a minimal index of agencies

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Where should I register a transit agency's feed?
A: https://transit.land/feed-registry/ and https://github.com/TransitFeeds/TransitFeeds-Public/issues

Q: What will happen to historical feeds on gtfs-data-exchange?
A: Historic feed archive will be available for research via AWS S3 "requestor pays" policy. The dataset is currently 13k files totaling 93G from 2008 onward. Contact me if you'd like access.

A special thanks to the fine folks at TrilliumTransit, and WalkScore for their support and encouragement over the years.

If you have any specific questions about this transitio, reach out to me @jehiah

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How to Provide Open Data

1) Publish your schedule data as a GTFS feed. Google publishes instructions on how to create GTFS feeds.

2) Provide an official URL where your feed can be downloaded. This can be a URL on your agency site or a URL to a third-party authorized to host your feed. Note: a simple way to provide an official URL is to upload your feed to GTFS Data Exchange and use the provided url.

3) Send email to transit-developers@googlegroups.com with the URL of your feed. Note: this is a public mailing list.

4) Submit GTFS feed location for inclusion on GTFS Data Exchange. This helps developers find the URL where your data is published.

Is your local transit agency missing from GTFS Data Exchange? Please contact them directly and ask that they make their data available to their riders. A list of agencies and their contacts can be found at www.citygoround.org

API

GTFS Data Exchange API Documentation

Resources

About GTFS Data Exchange

This site is designed to help developers and transit agencies efficiently share and retrieve GTFS data. GTFS-data-exchange helps eliminate the time between feed publication by a transit agency and when the developer is alerted to it's presence. This is accomplished by per-agency RSS feeds that developers and other GTFS consumers subscribe to.

This Site has been designed by Jehiah Czebotar along with feedback from the GTFS community.
For updates about this site, follow @gtfs_data.

Data posted on this site is provided AS IS. No guarantee of correctness or suitability for any purpose is implied.