{"id":16,"date":"2015-04-22T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T05:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2022-11-11T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:38:35","slug":"gtfs-google-vs-general-whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/gtfs-google-vs-general-whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"GTFS Google vs General &#8211; What&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are only just finding out about GTFS, there is often a little confusion about what the acronym stands for. \u00a0Variations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General Transit Feed Specification (Correct)<\/li>\n<li>General Transit File Specification<\/li>\n<li>General Transport (or Transportation) Feed Specification<\/li>\n<li>Google Transport File (or File) Specification<\/li>\n<li>Google Transit Feed Specification (Historical)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to <a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Transit_Feed_Specification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>, GTFS was\u00a0first conceived by Bibiana McHugh, an IT Manager at the TriMet\u00a0transit agency in the Portland metropolitan area (Oregon, USA) and was developed by Google\u00a0and Portland TriMet. \u00a0It was originally known as the Google Transit Feed Specification.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2009, it was proposed by Joe Hughes from Google to change the name from Google Transit Feed Specification to the General Transit Feed Specification. \u00a0 \u00a0Joe&#8217;s motivation for the change was that &#8220;when Google first worked with early transit partners to create the\u00a0original <a href=\"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/tag\/general-transit-feed-specification\/\">GTFS spec<\/a> they gave the document the descriptive title &#8220;Google\u00a0Transit Feed Specification&#8221;, since it was simply the feed\u00a0specification consumed by Google Transit.\u00a0In the years since then, many more applications had started consuming\u00a0data in this format, and many transit agencies had begun using GTFS\u00a0to share their routes and schedules with all application developers,\u00a0not just Google.&#8221; \u00a0He went on to say &#8220;It&#8217;s time to bring the name in line with the current state of affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Almost six years later and now GTFS is being used for large and small transit agencies, full website and mobile apps, on the majority of the global search engines and to support a variety of uses from accessible schedules to availability of\u00a0public amenities.<\/p>\n<p>It now truly is a &#8220;General Transit Feed Specification&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-16\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/gtfs-google-vs-general-whats-in-a-name\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-16\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/gtfs-google-vs-general-whats-in-a-name\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/gtfs-google-vs-general-whats-in-a-name\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20GTFS%20Google%20vs%20General%20-%20What%27s%20in%20a%20name%3F&body=https%3A%2F%2Faddtransit.com%2Fblog%2F2015%2F04%2Fgtfs-google-vs-general-whats-in-a-name%2F&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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