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    {"title" :"DOT Seeking Data for New National Transit Map","summary" : "The Department of Transportation (DOT) has invited transit agencies to share their schedule data to feed an upcoming National Transit Map. The new initiative won’t provide trip planning, but will make it possible for researchers, policymakers, and private citizens to identify and address gaps in access to public transportation. These gaps will be identified through","date" : "2016-03-24T11:13:25-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
        
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      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/03/2016-03-24-dot-seeking-data-for-new-national-transit-map.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/03/2016-03-24-dot-seeking-data-for-new-national-transit-map.md","slug" : "dot-seeking-data-for-new-national-transit-map","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/24/dot-seeking-data-for-new-national-transit-map/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eThe Department of Transportation (DOT) has invited transit agencies to share their schedule data to feed an upcoming National Transit Map. The new initiative won’t provide trip planning, but will make it possible for researchers, policymakers, and private citizens to identify and address gaps in access to public transportation. These gaps will be identified through the collection of transit data (including where transit stops are, how frequent transit service is, and where transit routes go.) Many transit agencies already publish this data locally, but it has yet to be combined into one national, openly available map of transit service in America, according to a blog post from Secretary Foxx in \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/housing-transportation-and-opportunity\"\u003eDOT’s Fast Lane\u003c/a\u003e. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/03/600-x-385-State-Puzzle-Julesinski-iStock-Thinkstock-181394626.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A United States road map, shown as a pile of puzzle pieces of each state\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTransit agencies are encouraged to voluntarily grant DOT access to and use of their data for this initiative, as each transit agency has different terms and conditions on their open data, and many include restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo share their data, transit agencies simply need to authorize DOT to use their GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) or other machine-readable \u003ca href=\"http://gis.rita.dot.gov/Transit/\"\u003eschedule feeds\u003c/a\u003e. They can sign up from within the same \u003ca href=\"https://faces.fta.dot.gov/suite/\"\u003eWeb application\u003c/a\u003e they use to report to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). DOT’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) will collect the data from transit agencies who opt in and combine it into one machine-readable, open dataset, which can be used to generate maps. DOT will begin gathering data on March 31st and will continue to periodically collect data and extend the map as more transit agencies sign up.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first version of the National Transit Map is set to be \u003ca href=\"http://gis.rita.dot.gov/Transit/FAQ.html\"\u003ereleased this summer\u003c/a\u003e and you can \u003ca href=\"mailto:NationalTransitMap@dot.gov\"\u003eemail National Transit Map\u003c/a\u003e with any questions. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/03/600-x-450-3D-pins-and-NYC-subway-map-Lupen-iStock-Thinkstock-466182368.jpg\"\n    alt=\"3-D pins on an NYC subway map\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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