GTFS Flex – What Is It and How Is It Used?
GTFS-Flex is a proposed extension to the General Transit Feed Specification (“GTFS”), a data standard that organizes transit schedule data into formats that are transferable between online systems—most notably trip planning apps. There are over 2,500 agencies worldwide that publish GTFS data, over a thousand of which are in the United States. GTFS data informs a trip planner’s transit directions, but only for fixed-route systems. GTFS-Flex adds modeling of demand response, continuous stops, route deviation, and other non-fixed-route services to GTFS. A GTFS-Flex-enabled trip planner can read these additional categories of transit data and generate matching itineraries, giving a user more trip options in search results. This document discusses how GTFS-Flex works, provides a survey of projects utilizing GTFS-Flex, highlights some companies providing GTFS-Flex-based services, and looks at the future of GTFS-Flex.
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Corporate Authors:
Trillium Solutions, Incorporated
,National Center for Applied Transit Technology (N-CATT)
,Federal Transit Administration
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Authors:
- Craig, Thomas
- Shippy, Weston
- Publication Date: 2020-10-22
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 25p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Case studies; Demand responsive transportation; Information processing; Passenger information systems; Public transit
- Identifier Terms: General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01776535
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Jul 14 2021 1:43PM