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    • National Transit Map Routes

    Metadata Updated: February 2, 2026

    The National Transit Map - Routes dataset was compiled on December 02, 2025 from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). 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. The GTFS Schedule documentation is available at, https://gtfs.org/schedule/. 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. A data dictionary, or other source of attribute information, is accessible at https://doi.org/10.21949/1529048

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 30, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 2, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NGDA data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 30, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 2, 2026
    Publisher Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=985bf490e9fa462f80b1cb8ad5f6e139&sublayer=0
    Data First Published 2024-05-15T16:08:34.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-26T20:17:02.104Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:25
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id ec664cdf-15b6-4bb8-a524-640908ce4b82
    Harvest Source Title NGDA data.json
    Homepage URL https://ngda-transportation-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usdot::national-transit-map-routes
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -161.8255,13.2469,145.7298,66.5732
    Program Code 015:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9b55afeb3718599c86ab65afabbdc58b3b4999284803f196496f117c5aff1b2a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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