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The General Transit Feed
Specification (GTFS) and
Implications for International
Development
Holly Krambeck, World BankPresented at Transforming Transportation 2015
The General Transit Feed Specification(GTFS)
and Implications for International Development
Holly [email protected]
City of 12 million people
70% of all trips made on public transit
SUPPOSE
AND YOU WANT TOTake a bus somewhere
orIdentify a suitable location for a
new transit route or station
35% of the world’s 100 largest cities
do not have complete transit route maps
92%of the world’s largest lower-middle income cities
(25 out of the largest 100)
do not have complete transit route maps
THE EXPERIMENT
Create cities’ first integrated, multi-modal transit maps and databases using a data standard that
is not remotely intended to solve transit challenges in developing countries…
the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
WHAT IS GTFS?
• Open data standard
Route Type Route ID Route Name
Bus 123 A to B
… … …
Route ID Route Name Route Type
123 A to B 3
… … …
Effectively, taking existing data types and adjusting column names and encoding
WHY DO WEGTFS?
• Growing # of developers are creating innovative solutions to transit challenges, leveraging this standard.
• In theory, an investment in an application in one city can be adopted in any other city that
has adopted the same standards. In business and international development, this is a very powerful concept!
WHY DO WEGTFS?
• 800+ uniform transit datasets available to you RIGHT NOW:
http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/
WORLD BANKGTFS-BASED PROJECTS
Manila, PhilippinesZhengzhou, Jinan, Nanchang; China
Haiphong, VietnamUlaanbaatar, Mongolia
Mexico City, MexicoSao Paulo, Brazil (new)
Cairo, Egypt (new)
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED
(1) GTFS databases do have the potential to help developing cities
overcome, for the first time, challenges they had faced for
many years; and (2) GTFS databases are very difficult
to establish and maintain in developing countries.