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General

Legacy ID
201

How It Went

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Publication

The amount of the data proved challenging Specifically the Stop Times (67 Million Records) has been difficult to publish and serve efficiently

How It Went

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The Build

Underestimated the amount of data

Code was written to use asynchronous processes

Process Files and Records One-By-One

Code had to be rewritten to use synchronous processes...

How It Went

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Registered GTFS Feeds

Submitted - 261

Valid End Points - 222

Downloaded Files - 222

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Percentage of Participation

All Participating - 0.24

All Invited - 0.29

Top 10 - 0.80

Top 25 - 0.84

Top 50 - 0.74

Top 100 - 0.60

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Percentage of Participation By VOMS

VOMS - 0.53

TOP 10 - 0.87

TOP 25 - 0.88

TOP 50 - 0.83

TOP 100 - 0.77

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National Transit Map Participation

Total Agencies - 849

Total Invites - 697

Total Respondents - 205

Anticipated Products

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User Guides System Documentation Agency provided routes Inferred Routes (Eventually conflated to road networks) National GTFS Files APIs and Applications to query the data

Products and Services

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Spatial Participating agencies Agencies by Volume Stops ¼ mile stop buffers ½ mile stop buffers Tabular Agencies Feeds Routes Trips...

Building the database

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Each Zip file is opened Each GTFS file is opened and each record is inserted into the NTM database Each record is assigned an NTM ID so they maintain their unique identity

Scrapping

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The URLs are read from the Registry Each URL points to a zipped GTFS file Each .zip file is saved to a versioned directory