GTFS Reference resources¶

GTFS.org official documentation site for the General Transit Feed Specification.

Courses¶

MobilityData - "Understanding GTFS: An intro and overivew - Video provides an overview of of the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and why it is useful for transit agencies, riders, and policymakers.
World Bank - "Intro. to GTFS" online course - A free, online, self-paced course for learning about GTFS and GTFS-realtime.
Open Transit Data Toolkit - A series of lessons to help people utilize open transit data.
ArcGIS - Introduction to GTFS
GTFS-books - Comprehensive guides to GTFS and GTFS Realtime. These books were written by Quentin Zervaas, and have been donated to MobilityData and made open access.
MBTA GTFS Onboarding - An interactive tutorial created by MBTA for GTFS static. A stand-alone Docker image is available on GitHub as well as a hosted/no-install version of the Jupyter notebook.
Planetizen "Building a Transit Map Web App" course - A video tutorial on setting up your own web-based mapping application, with no coding experience required.

Google Transit Developers - Additional Google-specific documentation of GTFS.
Transit app Guidelines for Producing GTFS Static Data - Additional Transit app-specific documentation of GTFS.
Bing Maps Transit - Add your transit data to Bing Maps - Additional Bing-specific documentation of GTFS.
Yandex Maps - Transport integration - Additional Yandex-specific documentation of GTFS.