Data Resource Center
AC Transit provides bus data regarding schedules, stops and routes. This information is for individuals interested in supporting the use of AC Transit services through the development of web-based applications or other technologies. It is also for anyone who just wants to view AC Transit routes and stops in geographic software applications such as Google Earth. Information about the data and terms for its use are discussed below.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
AC Transit requests a review of the Terms and Conditions of Use by third party developers, consultants or interested parties prior to accessing a ‘data folder’. Here is a link to those Terms and Conditions. Individuals can also find the link to the Terms and Conditions document from the appropriate data download pages.
SCHEDULE, ROUTE AND STOP DATA
Schedule, route and stop data is available to third party developers in a variety of formats. Before selecting and downloading any data, please review the description and links indicated below.
AC Transit is not responsible for the accuracy of these files. This data may or may not exactly match what is displayed in other systems utilizing AC Transit schedule, stop and route data such as 511.org or the AC Transit website.
Data is currently available effective for the August 9, 2020 service change.
GENERAL TRANSIT FEED SPECIFICATION
The General Transit Feed Specification originally developed by Google or ‘GTFS’ defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information data. AC Transit Service Development Department generates this data for Google to process at least 3 times per year for use in their Transit Trip Planner. This specification describes the details of this common format that is now used among transit data users.
http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html
Click here to download.
APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE
AC Transit is eager to provide our real time data to ensure that everyone can be as informed as possible when it comes to vehicle delays and trip planning. This data is provided in two formats: GTFS-Realtime and our application programming interfaces.
BUS ROUTE GIS SHAPE FILES
The District maintains geographic shape file information for each bus route according to the ESRI’s ArcGIS file format standard. This route shape data was created in the geographic coordinate system GCS_WGS84 format. It contains a concatenated version of all trip patterns for every route respectively (including weekday and weekend). A zipped file of the route shape was created for easy download and it also contains an XML file describing the content of the shape file.
Click here to download.
BUS STOP GIS DATA SHAPE FILES
AC Transit maintains a bus stop network of approximately 5600 bus stops. The GIS shape files indicate the location of each stop, regional real-time bus ID # as well as other attributes. This data file does not reflect what time of day the stop may have bus service or by what route. Metadata about the stop data files is also included in the data folder.
Click here to download.
511.org DATA FILES AND REAL-TIME DEPARTURE INFORMATION
511 provides several data feeds for developers who’d like to create applications, widgets, and other tools using 511 data. All data sources and tools are free-of-charge. In addition to an export of static data, these sources include real-time departure data and a 511 transit data feed.
http://511.org/developer-resources.asp
MOBILE APPS AND WEBSITES
In addition to a specially designed version of the AC Transit site for mobile devices, numerous apps and websites have been developed on Android and iOS to help make riding AC Transit easier. The following is a list of the current apps available.
http://www.actransit.org/rider-info/mobile-apps/
Questions and comments about these data files should be directed via email to: planning@actransit.org. While we cannot promise to respond to every comment, we’ll try to answer questions you may have on the data. Help us help you by providing as much detail as possible for your query.
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