Let's celebrate the Digest's 1-year anniversary with 2 votes and an adoption to the specification. The community is currently voting on a proposal to clarify the use of agency_fare_url and a proposal that specifies the behavior of ADDED, and un-deprecate REPLACEMENT in TripUpdates. We also recommend that you take a look at the latest adoption that adds fare_leg_join_rules.txt to the specification.
November’s highlights include the Governance Changes Proposal, a new GTFS Realtime feature linking feed versions to schedules, and voting on fare leg join rules. Active proposals and discussions tackled Fares rider categories, flexible pathways, and demand-based frequencies,
Key updates from the October 2024 GTFS Digest include a vote on adding a feed_version field to GTFS Realtime feeds, the adoption of trip modification adjustments for Realtime, and ongoing proposals like enhancements to station modeling and rider categories in GTFS-Fares v2. Conversations across GTFS channels focused on implementation questions, validator updates, and evolving best practices. The 2024 International Mobility Data Summit in Montreal also brought together global GTFS community members for impactful exchanges and collaboration.
The September 2024 GTFS Digest highlights recent contributions, including adopted proposals on validity rules for polygons and clarifications for from/to_stop_id in transfers.txt. It also features active proposals like adjustments to trip modifications and updates to nonconsecutive transfers in GTFS-Fares v2. This edition showcases a surge of new conversations, sparking discussions on HTTPS best practices, route deviation, and more.
This month’s GTFS Digest features GTFS.org’s new design with improved navigation and a Community Section. We cover recent updates like conditional stops.txt and recommended headsigns, ongoing votes on polygon validity and transfer clarifications, and key discussions on trip scheduling. Don’t miss the GTFS Flex Webinar and GTFS-Fares v2 Meeting—explore the latest and join the conversation!
Key updates include the inclusion of shapes.txt for all route-based services (#470), clarification of stop_times.timepoint to mean no timepoint values are provided if empty (#474), and feed_info.txt updated to be Conditionally Required (#460). The community is voting on updates to stops.txt requirements for demand-responsive services (#472).
We've adopted rule_priority to fare_leg_rules.txt and clarified stops.zone_id conditional requirements for route-based fare_rules. Current proposals include updates to feed_info.txt, clarifications in transfers.txt, new fare_leg_join_rules.txt, Feed Version and GTFS URL additions, and fare product/media transfer behavior in GTFS-Fares v2.
Join the community in exploring inconsistencies in trip updates, new fields like cars_allowed and trip_global_id, recommendations for bikes_allowed and shapes.txt, adding vehicles.txt, using StopTimeEvent.uncertainty, GTFS-Flex changes, and GTFS terminology updates.
Exciting news! Spare Labs is beta testing a Free GTFS-Flex Builder, and MobilityData is progressing with the Flex rules proposal for the Canonical GTFS Schedule Validator. Topics of interest include UTF-8 encoding, refinement of GTFS Terminology, improving station modeling, enhancing voting processes, and clarifying constraints on pathways.stair_count.
GTFS-Flex now enables users to discover demand-responsive services, and GTFS Trip-Modifications introduces experimental fields for trip adjustments. The new 5.0 release of the Canonical GTFS Schedule Validator includes enhanced error handling and Fares v2 validation.