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National Transit Map Routes

Metadata Updated: January 27, 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

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Dates

Metadata Date January 26, 2026
Metadata Created Date August 3, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2026
Reference Date(s) July 1, 2018 (creation), December 30, 2025 (revision)
Frequency Of Update quarterly

Metadata Source

Harvested from National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date January 26, 2026
Metadata Created Date August 3, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2026
Reference Date(s) July 1, 2018 (creation), December 30, 2025 (revision)
Responsible Party Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
Guid National Transit Map Routes
Access Constraints Access Constraints: unrestricted
Bbox East Long 145.72983000008691
Bbox North Lat 66.57321299993788
Bbox South Lat 13.246900000412619
Bbox West Long -161.82545300044177
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update quarterly
Harvest Object Id 805debf8-a4b9-4013-9387-08511633db05
Harvest Source Id ee45e034-47c1-4a61-a3ec-de75031e6865
Harvest Source Title National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) Metadata
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States (CC-BY-3.0)
Lineage
Metadata Language eng; USA
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-161.82545300044177, 13.24690000041262], [145.7298300000869, 13.24690000041262], [145.7298300000869, 66.57321299993788], [-161.82545300044177, 66.57321299993788], [-161.82545300044177, 13.24690000041262]]]}
Progress onGoing
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System 3857
Spatial Harvester True

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