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Vetting the Feeds

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The URLs submitted are checked to ensure they are valid end points If they are not we search for the correct end point Sometimes valid end points cant be found

Registration

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Transit Agencies use FACES to opt-in and Grant a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States (CC-BY-3.0) license to the USDOT Register the URLs from which their GTFS feeds can be downloaded The registration is forwarded to BTS

How it works

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Transit Agency NTD Reporter

Agency Info GTFS Urls And Leicensure

FTA GTFS Registration Web Site.

Agency Info GTFS URLs And Licensure Sent to BTS

Raw GTFS Data

Raw Data

BTS Staff

Vetted Data

GTFS Registry...

The Strategy

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Employ an iterative process

Focus on the largest urban agencies

More likely to publish GTFS Feeds, affects more people

The Secretary of Transportation would personally encourage participation...

Technological Considerations

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How do we retrieve the data? How do we compile the data? How do we store the data? How do we publish the data? What products should we generate?

Strategy Considerations

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Do we design, build and implement a complete solution or take and iterative approach?

Do we ask for all of the data at once or do we focus on subsets?

Policy Considerations

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How will we encourage participation? How will we get permission to use the data? What will be the terms of use? How do we track participating agencies? How will agencies tell us where to find the data?

The Solution

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Create The National Transit Map (NTM)

a national repository of voluntarily provided, public domain transit data.

The public, researchers and government agencies can access the repository and use the data for research...

No Problem

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Most transit agencies publish GTFS Feeds We’ll collect, compile, & publish the data Problem Agencies set a variety of restrictive terms on the use of the data. The data must be requested on a case-by-case basis....

No Problem

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We’ll just consult the national transit dataset. Problem The national transit dataset only covers fixed guideway routes It was a very small percentage of the national transit system It lacked accuracy and depth