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Welcome to the website for TRB Standing Committee on Transit Data (AP090).

The TRB Standing Committee on Transit Data focuses on the generation, processing, and emerging opportunities for integrating existing and emerging transit data streams with other transit and transit-related datasets to strengthen the entire network of information.

2025 Annual Meeting

Virtual

RSVP for our on-line annual committee (business) meeting, Tuesday January 14 at noon US Eastern

Please Note: Registration will not add the meeting to your calendar. Please look for the registration confirmation email and open the attached “ICS” file, then save that to your calendar.

In-person

AP090 at the 2025 Annual Meeting

UPDATE ON MONDAY HAPPY-HOUR—NEW LOCATION: Yard House: 812 7th St NW

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How to Connect

To stay up-to-date on committee discussions and other events, sign up as a friend via MyTRB
1. Visit the AP090 Transit Data Committee on MyTRB
2. Press the “Become a Friend of this Committee” blue button

Mission

Inform decision making throughout the transit industry with use of key data and by way of knowledge sharing, collaboration and coordination, advocacy for data standards, sponsorship of research, documentation of best practices, and use of open-source methodologies, innovative approaches and tools that provide necessary interfaces for intermodal linked trips.

Goals and Strategies

Document transit data sources (AVL, AFC, GTFS, Surveys, travel demand model outputs, Internet of Things, Location-based Services), tools (Databases, GIS, emerging data science tools, stats packages, BI tools, GTFS-RT Location and Occupancy models), research topics, and data governance issues
Document barriers to acquiring, interfacing, and using data
Identify, establish, and maintain connections to collaborate on achieving the mission; especially with other relevant TRB committees and external organizations; help organize discussions and workshops
Create and maintain a membership path to increase competency in developing and using transit data
Develop calls for research in meetings and small group chats

Research

Subcommittees

Data Infrastructure & Governance

Designated AP090(1), this subcommittee focuses on the practical challenges and practices for implementing modern data infrastructure and governance within transit agencies.

Interagency Discussion Series

The committee members and friends host a monthly Interagency Discussion series featuring a variety of transit-data topics and designed to build an understanding of transit data research needs. To receive invitations, Request to join the Slack and/or become a friend of the committee via MyTRB.

Want to help plan or present future discussions? Contact Michael Eichler - meichler at wmata dot com

Next Session

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Past Sessions

Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Transport for London (TfL)
Statewide Measurement of Transit Options, Access, and Equity (slides)
Real-time crowding data
Transit Surveys
Transit Data Therapy
Transit signal prioprity
Deploying Research: Origin-Destination-Transfer Inference Models
Open data standards
Agency Spotlights
- MTC (SF Bay Area)
- RTD (Denver)
- US Bureau of Transportation Statistics: National Transit Map
- LA Metro
- SoundTransit (Seattle)
- WMATA (DC)
- DART (Dallas)
Multi-Agency Performance Measurement
Transit Data Governance featuring MARTA
Open Source Tools for Transit Data Infrastructure
Demand-Responsive Transportation Data Standards
Young Member Spotlight Sessions
- Advanced geospatial data visualization in Python
- Bus control strategies
OpenTripPlanner (slides)
GTFS - Beyond Schedules (GTFS Flex) (slides)
Data-Driven Bus Priority
- TransLink Bus Priority Program (slides)
- Denver Bus Lanes (slides)
- LA Metro Better Bus Experience (slides)
Data-Driven Passenger Information Screens
- Maryland MTA Presentation (slides)
- Sound Transit Presentation (slides)
- MBTA Presentation (slides)

Submit Content to our Monthly Newsletter!

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Current Issue

April 2025

Past Issues

Files

Meeting Minutes

Agenda

Former Subcommittee Files

Files from our predecessor entity (the TRB Joint Subcommittee on Transformative Trends in Transit Data (AP000/ABJ00)) are available here.

Annual Meetings

Members

A complete and updated list of members is located on MyTRB

Catherine Lawson, Chair
Michael Eichler, Vice Chair
Carole Turley Voulgaris, Secretary
Raymond Chan and Greg Newmark, Committee Research Coordinators
Eric Lind, Paper review coordinator
Anson Stewart, Communications Coordinator (interim)

Contact Us

Join the conversation on LinkedIn!
Join the conversation on Slack!

The Slack Channel is hosted by MobilityData. Request to join their Slack. From there, you can join the #trb-transit-data channel

Disclaimer

Any opinions, findings, or conclusions expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Transportation Research Board or The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.