Shared Transportation Services – Leveraging GTFS with Regional Partners

Project Purpose:  To develop a data workflow plan supporting mobile applications that improve access to shared transportation services. The plan will meet General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) standards and detail an interagency coordination framework for standardizing, exchanging, compiling and maintaining shared services data for use in mobile applications.

Project Goals:

• Develop lines of communication with shared ride agencies for publishing and maintaining shared transportation data
• Establishment of a standardized data template and workflow for data exchange
• Development of a geospatial database of both public and private shared transportation services
• Publication of a standardized GTFS data feed

Member Project Team:  North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (Lead)