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GTFS, or the General Transit Feed Specification, defines a common data format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information.[1] GTFS contains only static or scheduled information about public transport services, and is sometimes known as GTFS Static or GTFS Schedule to distinguish it from the GTFS Realtime extension, which defines how information on the realtime status of services can be shared.[1][2] What was to become GTFS started out as a side project of Google employee Chris Harrelson in 2005, who "monkeyed around with ways to incorporate transit data into Google Maps when he heard from Tim and Bibiana McHugh, married IT managers at TriMet, the transit agency for Portland, Oregon".[3] McHugh is cited with being frustrated about finding transit directions in unfamiliar cities, while popular mapping services were already offering easy-to-use driving directions at the time.[4] Bibiana and Tim McHugh eventually got into contact with Google and provided the c

GTFS - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Data standard for public transport information GTFS A visualization created from GTFS data for transit routes in Ulm , Germany Filename extension .zip Developed by Google Initial release 27 September 2006 &#59; 19 years ago  ( 2006-09-27 ) Type of format Transit schedule format Extended from CSV Standard De facto standard Open format ? Yes, CC BY 3.0 Website gtfs .org GTFS , or the General Transit Feed Specification , is a general transit feed specification which defines a common data format for publ

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