On behalf of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), the American Public Transit Association (APTA), the National Transit Institute (NTI), and the US Department of Transportation, Office of The Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, we would like to invite you to attend the FREE web pilots for the Transit ITS Professional Capacity Building Program. Register for free to any or all of the following modules, take part in shaping our ITS Transit Standards training modules by providing your feedback and earn professional development hours!
The purpose of this second module on GTFS (Part 2 of 2) is to focus specifically on GTFS-Realtime. As an extension of GTFS, the General Transit Feed Specification Real Time (GTFS- Realtime) is a data feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide Realtime updates about their fleet. GTFS-Realtime requires information from various sources to generate quality real time information including GTFS. Module 14-Part 2 provides an overview of GTFS-Realtime specification, discussion of the scope, application of how to implement it, and uses of the specifications including how an agency would implement GTFS or GTFS-Realtime. Additionally, this module will describe downstream uses of GTFS- Realtime feeds.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the scope, uses for and users of the GTFS-Realtime specifications.
- Apply transit source applications to GTFS-Realtime.
- Implementation of GTFS-Realtime.
Target Audience:
- Transit Oversight Staff
- Transit management staff
- Transit planning, operations, and maintenance staff
- Transit IT staff
- Transit ITS staff
- Consultant / Developers (including 3rd party developers)
- Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Prerequisite:
Module 14, Part 1 of 2: Applying General Transit Feed Specifications (GTFS) To Your Agency
https://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/stds_training.aspx
Course Credit
1.5 PDH/pending 1.5 CM
To receive course credit, you must attend and participate in the web pilot and complete an evaluation survey immediately after the web pilot ends.
Instructor:
Scott Altman has been a Member of the Technical Staff at Consensus Systems Technologies, or ConSysTec, since 2011. He has experience with various specifications for transit data, including transit schedule data and real-time information. He currently manages quality control and testing of GTFS data for the New York State Department of Transportation’s 511NY Transit Trip Planner. This effort involves collecting and creating GTFS covering approximately one-hundred transit operators throughout the state. Scott has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a registered Intern Engineer in New York, known as an EIT in other states.