Since its release in 2004, the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) has revolutionized the way we work with public transit data. It defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. A GTFS feed is composed of a series of text files collected in a ZIP file. Each file models a particular aspect of transit information: stops, routes, trips, and other schedule data.

The txt mandatory and optional files that compose a GTFS feed.

GTFS feeds let public transit agencies publish their transit data and developers write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way. Many of these feeds are openly available at the Open Mobility Data website.

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