Online transit trip planner for small agencies using Google Transit : final deployment package.

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• Creators:
  Dion, François ; Lin, Grace ; Singa, Krute ; Kumar, Manju
• Corporate Creators:
  University of California, Berkeley. California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technologies
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Costs Data Sharing Origin And Destination Public Transit Quality Of Service Transit Operating Agencies Traveler Information And Communication Systems Websites (Information Retrieval)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CA 12-2028
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  California
• Corporate Publisher:
  California. Dept. of Transportation. Division of Research and Innovation
• Abstract:
  Google Transit is a public transportation trip planner that enables travelers to obtain information regarding available transit services between a
  
  given origin and given destination. While transit agencies can publish their service information onto Google Transit for free, Google requires
  
  that service data be submitted using a specific format known as the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS). For transit agencies, this
  
  requirement translates into a need to commit some staff resources to the development and upkeep of the GTFS data, which can be an
  
  intimidating task for small agencies with just a few employees.
  
  To evaluate the problems, issues, needs and benefits that small transit agencies must consider when using Google Transit, a pilot program was
  
  developed to help a nine small agencies in California publish their service data onto Google Transit. This report was developed based on the
  
  experiences from the pilot deployments. It provides transit agencies with (1) a review of the needs associated with GTFS data conversion, data
  
  maintenance, data hosting, data security, performance evaluation, and marketing and outreach; (2) a description of free and subscription-based
  
  GTFS development tools available to transit agencies; (3) a synopsis of a typical GTFS data development process; (4) a description of various
  
  data hosting and maintenance models; (5) an identification of training resources available for free; and (6) a list of technical resources that may
  
  be used to assist with the development GTFS data. The results of two surveys that were conducted to evaluate how transit agencies and
  
  travelers use online transit trip planners and perceive their benefits are also presented. The project demonstrated that small transit agencies can
  
  develop and publish their GTFS data onto Google Transit with relatively minimum financial, time and resource commitments.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  UCB-ITS-CWP-2011-7
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25730/dot_25730_DS1.pdf
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