NTM Transit Routes
The paths of the fixed-route bus, rail, streetcar, subway and ferry services that run in South Carolina, as the transit agencies publish them, compiled nationally by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Good for seeing where transit runs, which kinds of service reach an area, and how far each route goes.
- Published by
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Source
- NTM (BTS transit routes and stops)
- Original data
- services.arcgis.com
- Terms of use
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States (CC BY 3.0 US)
- On the map
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The National Transit Map (NTM) is a nationwide catalog of fixed-guideway and fixed-route transit service in America. It is compiled using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Schedule data. The NTM Routes dataset shows transit routes, which is a group of trips that are displayed to riders as a single service. To display the route alignment and trips for each route, this dataset combines the following GTFS files: routes.txt, trips.txt, and shapes.txt. To improve the spatial accuracy of the NTM Routes, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) adjusts transit routes using context from the submitted GTFS source data and/or from other publicly available information about the transit service. The intent of the National Transit Map (NTM) is to support research, analysis, and planning. It is not intended to replace existing customer services available through transit agency websites and commercial trip planning service providers.
Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 17 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
OBJECTID | BTS's row id |
ntd_id | National Transit Database id(s) of the operating agency, ;-separated |
ntd_id | The same ids as an array |
feed_id | The GTFS feed the row came from |
shape_id | GTFS shape: this row's path |
route_id | GTFS route id, unique within its feed |
agency_id | GTFS agency id within the feed |
route_short_name | Short name riders see, often a number |
route_long_name | Full route name |
route_desc | Route description |
route_type | GTFS route type code |
route_type_text | The route type in words |
route_url | Agency web page for the route |
route_color | Agency's route colour, hex without # |
route_text_color | Text colour on the route colour, hex |
download_date | When BTS fetched the feed |
(computed) | Geodesic length of the whole shape, metres |