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Guides for transit planning teams

Practical explainers on turning GTFS, NTD, equity and access data into defensible decisions — written for planners who have to show their work.

GTFS analytics

GTFS analytics for transit planners: what a schedule feed can tell you

What a GTFS Schedule feed actually contains — and the service-supply and network metrics you can derive from it without any extra data.

Title VI / equity

A practical guide to Title VI service-equity analysis (FTA Circular 4702.1B)

How to define minority and low-income populations, set policies, and run a service-equity analysis that holds up to FTA review.

NTD benchmarking

NTD peer benchmarking: how to choose peers and read the numbers

Building a defensible peer group from National Transit Database reports and interpreting cost, productivity and service metrics in context.

Access analysis

Access to opportunity: measuring jobs reachable by transit

Cumulative-opportunity access, isochrones and the data behind "how many jobs can a rider reach" — and why it matters for service decisions.

Feed quality

GTFS-Realtime validation: keeping your feed (and your analysis) trustworthy

Common GTFS-Realtime errors, what good validation checks for, and why feed quality is the foundation of every downstream metric.

Put these ideas to work on your own agency

HeadwayForge normalizes nationwide GTFS, NTD, Census and access data into the service-supply, equity and benchmarking views these guides describe — for any US agency, on demand.