National Transit Map - Routes

Description

The National Transit Map - Routes dataset was compiled on April 04, 2024 from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The National Transit Map (NTM) is a nationwide catalog of fixed-guideway and fixed-route transit service in America. It is compiled using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Schedule data. The NTM Routes dataset shows transit routes, which is a group of trips that are displayed to riders as a single service. To display the route alignment and trips for each route, this dataset combines the following GTFS files: routes.txt, trips.txt, and shapes.txt. The GTFS Schedule documentation is available at, https://gtfs.org/schedule/. To improve the spatial accuracy of the NTM Routes, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) adjusts transit routes using context from the submitted GTFS source data and/or from other publicly available information about the transit service.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 An ESRI Geodatabase, ESRI shapefile, or spreadsheet. https://doi.org/10.21949/1527997
0 ArcGIS Online Hosted Esri Feature Service for visualizing geospatial information https://doi.org/10.21949/1528027

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  • national transit map
  • ntad
  • fixed route
  • frequency
  • atlas
  • national geospatial data asset
  • routes
  • vector
  • transportation
  • connectivity
  • linear united states
  • database
  • ngda
  • transit
  • states
  • usa
  • accessibility
  • map
  • ntm
  • transportation infrastructure
  • united
  • passenger movement
  • national transportation atlas database
  • rail
  • national
  • line
  • passenger travel

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