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Open it.
HeadwayForge pre-loads every US transit dataset — 17 domains, from GTFS and GTFS-Realtime to NTD, Census equity, and jobs data — and puts an AI planning analyst on top. The Title VI analysis that eats six weeks runs in an afternoon, with the board-ready PDF. No data onboarding, no procurement required to start.
The compliance calendar is mandatory. The planning headcount isn't there.
A transit planner's year is an unbroken chain of dated obligations: the NTD annual report, the Title VI service-equity analysis for every major change (and the triennial Program submission to FTA), the fall service pick, TAM targets, and grant NOFOs that close whether your data exhibits are ready or not. IIJA put $108 billion into transit — every dollar arrives with planning, equity, and reporting strings attached — while agencies can't hire planners fast enough to keep up. Most of that work is still rebuilt by hand each cycle in Excel, ArcGIS, and five different data portals. HeadwayForge replaces that stack with one workspace where the data is already loaded and the deliverables already run.
- Run the Title VI service-equity analysis (FTA C 4702.1B) in an afternoon, not six weeks — with the board PDF and methodology attached.
- See the impact before you change the route: frequency, span, and route scenarios with cost and winners/losers by demographic.
- Win the grants your peers are winning — every relevant NOFO, plus what similar agencies actually got awarded.
- Know where you stand nationally with NTD peer benchmarks, and cross-check your numbers before the NTD validator does.
From service question to board-approved action — in one workspace
Open your agency and the data assembly is already done. Every step from there produces an artifact you can hand to leadership, FTA, or a grant reviewer.
Detect
A scored health report ranks every route by service supply, span, headways, feed quality, and peer-benchmark gaps — on a schedule, delivered to your inbox.
Diagnose
Connects schedule, real-time, equity, access, and benchmark signals so you know why a route underperforms, not just that it does.
Model
Tests frequency, span, route, and corridor scenarios — with cost proxies and winners/losers by demographic computed during design, not after.
Defend
The equity screen runs on the same engine as the scenario, so the Title VI findings, the board memo, and the map never disagree.
Monitor
Scheduled insights keep checking the network against your adopted service standards after the change goes live.
One workspace replaces the planning tool stack
Service analysis, equity compliance, access, scenarios, benchmarking, funding intelligence, and an AI knowledge layer — all reading from the same source data, so the map, the memo, the CSV, and the board packet never disagree.
Service analysis
Trips per day, span, and headways by period for every route — plus continuous monitoring against your adopted service standards, with violations pushed to email or Slack.
Title VI & equity
FTA Circular 4702.1B implemented directly: minority and low-income route classification, disparate-impact and disproportionate-burden findings at your adopted threshold, and a board-ready PDF — in an afternoon, not six weeks.
Access to opportunity
An embedded R5 engine computes travel-time isochrones and jobs, people, and destinations reachable in 15, 30, and 45 minutes — with a minority vs non-minority access split, no GIS license required.
Scenario planning
Adjust frequency, span, or routes and see the impact before the change goes public: service supply, cost proxy, and winners/losers by demographic — chained straight into the Title VI screen.
NTD peer benchmarking
Know where you stand nationally: your agency against its NTD peer set on ridership, productivity, and operating cost, with national trend context — board and grant ammunition on a standing page.
Funding intelligence
Every relevant federal opportunity as it drops — 5307, 5311, 5339, Low-No — plus the award history showing what your peers actually won, so you chase the grants you can get.
AI knowledge layer
Ask plain-English questions over NOFOs, circulars, and your own planning documents and get cited answers — and export every analysis as traceable CSV and PDF for the board packet.
Built for the people who have to defend the plan
Service planners
Stop being the human ETL pipeline. The headway tables, equity joins, and board-packet numbers you rebuild every pick are already computed — so your time goes to planning judgment, not data assembly.
Planning directors
No more surprises at the board meeting. A continuously-audited equity and service record, peer benchmarks for context, and more analysis from the same staff — without another consultant invoice.
Title VI & compliance teams
A clean triennial review starts here: 4702.1B route classifications, DI/DB findings, monitoring results, and an audit trail for every analysis — no waiting weeks in the Planning data queue.
Grants teams
NOFO discovery the day it posts, peers' actual award amounts, and the fleet-age, ridership, and equity exhibits that make an application competitive — assembled in minutes, not weekends.
Small & rural agencies
If you're the GM, the planner, and the grant writer in one person, this is your planning department: maps, peer comparisons, and NTD cross-checks from data that's already loaded.
Common questions
What is HeadwayForge?
An AI-assisted transit planning workbench that helps agencies analyze service supply, equity, access, real-time operations, peer benchmarks, and planning scenarios — and export board-ready reports.
Does HeadwayForge require internal agency data?
No for the starter workflow. It begins with public GTFS, GTFS-Realtime, Census, and NTD sources. Agency integrations can add APC, fare, staffing, scheduling, and internal cost data.
Can HeadwayForge replace Remix, Swiftly, ArcGIS, or Optibus?
Yes — HeadwayForge is built to replace the planner's day-to-day tool stack: service analysis, Title VI equity, access analysis, scenario planning, peer benchmarking, and grant evidence in one workspace. During transition it also runs alongside the scheduling and operations tools you already use.
Does the product make service decisions automatically?
No. HeadwayForge provides analysis, scenarios, recommendations, and draft outputs. Agency staff remain responsible for approval and public decisions.
What exports are supported?
CSV, PDF, GeoJSON, scenario comparison tables, Title VI review tables, methodology notes, and draft board narratives — each traceable to source data and assumptions.
Your agency is already in here. See what it says.
Start free on public data — no procurement, no IT ticket, no data onboarding. When you're ready, plans start at $625/mo and we invoice against your PO on net-30 terms. Questions first? Email sales@headwayforge.com.