What We Do

The mobility industry’s biggest data challenges can only be solved if we work together. MobilityData facilitates the industry to develop data specifications and tools.

Transit Work

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General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)

GTFS is the de facto standard for representing transit passenger information. MobilityData identifies the GTFS community’s highest priorities and facilitates the open voting process for adopting new changes.

Go to the GTFS GitHub repository
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gtfs.org

To make learning GTFS as easy as possible, MobilityData has launched a new version of gtfs.org. Here you can find up-to-date information on the specification requirements and best practices.

Go to GTFS.org
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GTFS Data Quality Tools

Millions of passengers need high quality data to make decisions about how to plan their trip. See data quality reports with the MobilityData’s GTFS validator and GTFS Realtime validator. Check that signage and names are accurate with the GTFS Grading Scheme. Open and parse GTFS-Realtime feeds with the GTFS Realtime Language Bindings.

Go to the GTFS Schedule Validator
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GTFS Data Quality Tools

Millions of passengers need high quality data to make decisions about how to plan their trip. See data quality reports with the MobilityData’s GTFS validator and GTFS Realtime validator. Check that signage and names are accurate with the GTFS Grading Scheme. Open and parse GTFS-Realtime feeds with the GTFS Realtime Language Bindings.

Go to the GTFS Schedule Validator

Transit ITS Data Exchange Specification (TIDES)

TIDES is the Transit ITS Data Exchange Specification and is your key to accessing, managing, and using transit operations data.

Learn More About TIDES

The Operational Data Standard (TODS)

The Operational Data Standard (TODS) is an open standard for describing how to operate scheduled transit operations which can be used to port scheduled operations between software products (e.g. scheduling systems and CAD/AVL systems), agencies, and more. ODS leverages the existing General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and extends it to include information about personnel and non-revenue service.

Learn More About TODS

Transit Highlights

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GTFS-Fares v2 base implementation adopted into the official specification

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New desktop app to validate GTFS Schedule datasets easier

Browse the Mobility Database by feature: Fares, Flex and Pathways

Shared Mobility Work

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General Bike Feed Specification (GBFS)

GBFS is the de facto data exchange standard for shared mobility information. MobilityData identifies the GBFS community’s highest priorities and facilitates the open voting process for adopting new changes.

Go to the GBFS GitHub repository
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gbfs.org

Learning a new data standard can be intimidating. Go to gbfs.mobilitydata.org to learn about how to create a GBFS feed and how the community makes changes to the specification.

Go to gbfs.org

GBFS Data Quality Tools

High data quality is critical for passengers to make well-informed travel decisions. With the open source GBFS validator, you can select a feed and see a data quality report.

Use the GBFS validator

systems.csv

It is time consuming for trip planning applications to find GBFS data from operators around the world. With systems.csv, you can browse feeds to share with passengers or conduct service analysis.

Browse systems.csv

Shared Mobility Highlights

Expanded GBFS from bikeshare only to include scooters, mopeds, and cars

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Added variable pricing information to GBFS

Created documentation for policy-makers

Interoperability

Mobility Data Interoperability Principles (MDIP)

The Mobility Data Interoperability Principles (MDIP) coalition is government agencies, mobility service providers, and nonprofit organizations that are dedicated to changing the relationship between transit and technology. MDIP establishes a vision for the transit industry in which all mobility data is communicated by interoperable technology components using open standards. Interoperability is the next step for the software and hardware that support transit operations, planning, reporting, and the rider experience. It is a necessary condition for transit to keep pace with the changing world of personal mobility and to develop service that meets the expectations of the riding public.

Impact

See examples of how GTFS and GBFS impact travelers across the globe.

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GTFS is used by over 10,000 transit operators in more than 100 countries

12 organizations from 6 countries collaborated to pass the base implementation of GTFS-Fares v2

Our GTFS Schedule validator is used by major trip planners including Google Maps, Transit and Moovit

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GBFS is used by over 920 mobility systems in 46 countries across 5 continents