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GTFS feeds contain a treasure trove of useful transit service data, whose usefulness goes well beyond trip planning applications. GTFS data can be imported into and used in a variety of geospatial analysis platforms. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) programs like Esri’s ArcGIS, as well as the open-source QGIS have their own plugins and extensions that can import and visualize GTFS stop and route data:
Esri has a wide variety of tools and plugins that use GTFS data, including visualizing schedule data
In QGIS, GTFS-GO and GTFS Loader allow you to visualize routes + stops within the platform
There are also ways to work with GTFS data in ArcMap or QGIS without downloading any additional plugins or tools. See the tutorials below for instructions on how to set up GTFS data in Microsoft Excel and visualize stop- and route-level daily frequencies in GIS programs.
Learn how to use Microsoft Excel to aggregate transit frequency data from GTFS feeds at the stop- and route-levels in and set it up for import into geospatial analysis programs in this step-by-step tutorial.
Learn how to convert stops.txt into a point shapefile, join it to frequency data, and visualize it in GIS programs in this step-by-step tutorial.
Learn how to convert shapes.txt into a line shapefile, join it to frequency data, and visualize it in GIS programs in this step-by-step tutorial.
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