Get involved
- Join Slack and introduce yourself to the community.
- Subscribe to the GTFS Digest for monthly updates about all things GTFS.
- Join GTFS Changes Google Group to stay informed on development.
- Visit GitHub to post issues, participate in discussions around changes, and, propose changes.
Active projects¶
The community is constantly developing new additions to the specification that could require discussions and working group meetings to accomplish their larger goals in an open source setting. Working group meetings are consensus building discussions led by a facilitator, and attended by developpers, and interested contributors.
GTFS-Fares v2¶
GTFS-Fares v2 aims at improving the current Fares representation in GTFS by introducing new features like: fare products, rider categories, fare media, and more. These concepts will allow data producers to model different fare structures such as: zone-based, time-based, and inter-agency fares.
GTFS-Flex¶
Flex is a GTFS Schedule extension project that aims to facilitate discoverability of Demand Responsive Transportation Services.
GTFS Trip-Modifications¶
Trip-Modifications are modifications done to a trip to modify its shape, remove stops that are not served anymore, and potentially add temporary stops. Trip-Modifications is mainly used in a detour use case.
Mailing Lists¶
There are a number of mailing lists that can be good resources when you have questions about public transit data, software, formats like GTFS and GTFS-realtime, and other issues:
- GTFS Changes: discussion of proposal for extending the GTFS specification, as outlined in the GTFS Changes document.
- GTFS Realtime: discussion of the GTFS-realtime specification.
- transitfeed: discussion of the open-source transitfeed project, as well of discussion of the GTFS specification and associated tools.
- transit-developers: general transit developer discussions. Many transit agencies also have their own developer mailing lists specific to the agency. For example:
- OpenTripPlanner Community
- OpenTripPlanner User mailing list Check with your local transit agency to see if they have a mailing list of their own.
Other Community Resources¶
Find other communities and resourses related to GTFS
- German Open Transport Meetup - You can participate in a biweekly meetup of the German-speaking open transport community.
- OpenTripPlanner Community
- TransitWiki - A community wiki for transit planners. Like this repo, but better.
- Transit Techies NYC - NYC-based meetup for those interested in this repo. Speaker list includes many contributors to this repo.