What is GTFS?

General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data is the foundation of transit trip planning, mobility apps, planning & analysis.

GTFS is a worldwide transit data standard

GTFS is used to display public transportation information online including:

Stop locations
Bus routes and rail alignments
Schedules
Demand-response transit
Fares
Service alerts

Figure of selected icons from the hundreds of mobility apps that use GTFS to enable transit trip planning including Google Maps icon, Apple Maps icon, Transit icon, and OpenTripPlanner icon.

GTFS is used to display public transportation information online including:

Stop locations
Bus routes and rail alignments
Schedules
Demand-response transit
Fares
Service alerts

Trillium is the GTFS company

Our GTFS-based software tools are designed to get transit riders the information they need, when they need it.

Trillium Transit GTFS manager figure — GTFS Manager

The world’s first and most-used web application for maintaining GTFS data.

Trillium Transit Interactive maps figure — Interactive Maps

Make exploring your transit system easy.

Trillium Transit, Transit alerts figure — Transit Alerts

Publish service alerts in real time.