2022-05-15

GTFS

GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) is an open format for describing stop locations, schedules, etc.

https://gtfs.org

It resulted from a collaboration between Portland-based transportation company TriMet and Google in 2005.

https://developer.trimet.org/GTFS.shtml

To popularize and control the development of the format, the company Mobility Data was created.

https://database.mobilitydata.org

More than a thousand transportation companies provide data in this format to developers and companies. The data are distributed as a ZIP archive with CSV files: stops.txt, routes.txt, trips.txt, shapes.txt, calendar.txt, …

https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference

GTFS

Especially curious to me is the GTFS-Pathways format extension (pathways.txt) describing the multi-level stations, transfers, and boarding zones.