Document: GTFS Best Practices

[themightychris]

Per John Levin's input during second group call:

For each Use Case

• Standards to use
  • Why they are important
  • What it takes to implement them
• What systems and tools are involved
  • Both proprietary and open-source
• Procurement language
  • What to ask for in procurement and why
• Data Governance needs
  • What aspects of data governance are important
• Data management needs/ challenges
  • What are the the isues with the data
  • What is the processing that is needed, etc.
• Staffing / roles and/or consulting support
  • What is needed to do this work
• Sample project plans and steps

Use cases

• How to publish a GTFS feed
• How to submit GTFS to NTD
• How to do operational reporting

[themightychris]

Lina comment:

• Agency staffers need a manual for manually cleaning GTFS data published by vendor systems