Some existing feeds were sourced from Transitland to enrich in the UIUC UTEL Intercity Bus feed. This is a great example of how open data powers "virtuous cycles" 🔄
Thanks to the research team for carefully documenting their sources: github.com/UTEL-UIUC/in...
We hope they'll keep updating this!
screenshot of the Transitland global transit map focused on the continental United States and Canada showing blue bus lines and gray rail line
The UIUC UTEL Intercity Bus feed is now nicely providing more coverage and detail in Transitland's global transit map
Pan and zoom around at www.transit.land/map
(Or you can add Transitland's MVT tiles into your own creations)
Great work by University of Illinois's Urban Traffic & Economics Lab to curate and create GTFS data for many intercity bus routes.
We've added their feed into the Transitland Atlas and its routes, stops, schedules, etc. can now be queried using Transitland's APIs: www.transit.land/feeds/f-utel...
Transitland's new Pathways Explorer lets anyone visualize subway/train/bus station layouts, inspect wheelchair-accessible routes, and test station navigation using GTFS-Pathways data in public feeds.
More on our blog at www.interline.io/blog/explore...
Zip archives are wrappers. To identify a GTFS feed, you have to unwrap it and look inside...
More on how Transitland minimizes unnecessary duplication on our blog at www.interline.io/blog/gtfs-ch...
large LED screen listing two upcoming transit departures
Built with Transitland: "A subway arrivals sign using an off-the-shelf sign and a Raspberry Pi. No soldering skills required."
The creator has been generous enough to share their instructions and source code: github.com/mdejean/signpi
The Transitland global transit map is at www.transit.land/map
Explore GTFS-Pathways station data using Transitland's global transit map:
1) Click the gear icon to access advanced settings
2) Enable all stop types
3) Move your cursor over stop points
4) Notice the icons for station entrances and other station pathway nodes
(This example shows @mbta.com)
Transitland's global transit map now provides info on bus, subway, train, and ferry stops around the world:
1) Zoom in
2) Click on a stop point
3) Drill down into Transitland's full depth of information, including real-time departures
Try Transitland global transit map at www.transit.land/map
Whether you're an analyst learning your way around GTFS data or a transit agency staffer trying to quickly debug your own systems, Transitland now provides the tools you need to automatically parse and read GTFS Realtime feeds:
www.interline.io/blog/easily-...
Transitland parses thousands of #GTFS and GTFS Realtime feeds using our Go-based "transitland-lib" software library.
On the occasion of its v1.0.0 release, we thought we'd blog about its speed, flexibility, and capabilities:
Together with a number of small refinements and large refactoring for future functionality, we've added a "dark" mode to the Transitland website. Try it out at https://www.transit.land
The US Federal Transit Administration extended the comment period to January 29 re requiring transit agencies to insert their National Transit Database IDs into GTFS feeds.
Our critical feedback:
A snazzy project using Transitland's departures API:
www.instructables.com/NYC-Ferry-Sc...
Hello. Nice of Bluesky for letting us update our handle to @transit.land
When I'm new to city, @transitland.bsky.social helps me understand its underlying mobility structure. TransitLand learned from @googlemaps.bsky.social excellence on street and highway scaling and applied to transit. Here's hoping all mobility mapping will focus on user utility rather than mode
I ❤️ Transitland. For most western North America and Global South cities, rapid buses are core mobility. Yet most maps elevate infrequent rail lines aimed at the elite. I love this update but worry it under-values rail in European and East Asian cities. Thoughts?
