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New York Public Transit Data

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This is a collaborative space for people working to improve New York's public transit by increasing access to high-quality, machine-readable transit data in open formats. Access to open data has already spurred innovation elsewhere in the country and holds even more potential for New York.

On Wednesday, January 13th 2010, the efforts of this group and many others paid off as the MTA released GTFS data for all of the subway and bus lines it operates in New York!

There's still much to do and progress to be made. To help out, contribute to this wiki, join our meetup, or write an awesome app using open transit data.

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Meetings

To find out about upcoming meetups and RSVP, please check out our New York Public Transit Data Summit Meetup group.

Notes

Media Coverage

Documents

Roadmap and proposals

At the September meetup the group decided to work on a set of documents to present to the MTA that will provide a clear and easy roadmap for improving New York transit by opening up data and engaging positively with the developer community. This document (actually, set of documents) will likely draw heavily from and eventually subsume the documents listed below.

Issue summary

This document is intended to serve as a concise introduction to the importance of high quality, up-to-date open public transit data in standard formats.

Issue statement

Public statement in favor of opening up public transit data. After we draft this on the wiki, we will put it up elsewhere and get official sign-on from other groups and organizations.

Council Member Gale Brewer's Letter in support for Data Transparency

"In recent weeks, technology entrepreneurs and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) have disagreed over the creation of innovative applications with the potential to make the New York metro region more navigable. The MTA’s own licensing policies and insufficient data are delaying this development. A summary of the situation was described in AMNY on August 24, 2009: http://bit.ly/mtadata. In a recent letter, Council Member Gale A. Brewer is calling on the MTA to publish up-to-date schedules and standardize their public data to software developers: http://bit.ly/brewer_mtadata"

Licensing information from the MTA

Related mailing lists

Case studies from other cities

Other Resources

GTFS data

  • Some (partially out of date) GTFS data for MTA Bus Company buses is available on our data page.
  • Some unofficial LIRR GTFS data from jehiah available on gtfs-data-exchange
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