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. Of the 126 bona fide intercity bus carriers and 110 rural transit agencies with intercity services identified by the research team for inclusion in the atlas, data was obtained from 49 and transmitted to BTS for addition to the cur rent map; some carriers services are not yet represented due to technical issues with the feeds obtained, and other carriers services may be represented in whole or in part through coopera tion with Amtrak Thruway (e.g., Travel Washington's Apple, Dungeness, Gold, and Grape lines; Maryland's BayRunner Shuttle)
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Rio Vista Delta Breeze 27. Eastern Sierra Transit Authority 65.
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Other nongeographic segments of the industry also remain underrepresented and less well understood, namely carriers serving certain ethno demographic groups. Attributes Included A variety of information is tied to each route and stop included in the map, populated from the data included in each carrier's GTFS feed and from U.S.
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To maintain the atlas in its current state, work hours could range from 10 to 20 hours per week, but more time, perhaps up to 40 hours, would be needed to expand and further develop the ICBA. A sample job description follows and includes many of the tasks envisioned for the individual responsible: • Perform outreach to new carriers to expand the ICBA portfolio and perform the onboarding tasks to bring their feed data into the ICBA; • Understand bus carrier and planner's objectives, business drivers and needs to optimize the value delivered by the project; • Update and generate monthly and quarterly client reports in accordance with established timelines; • Work closely with BTS data analysts to ensure adoption of transit data feed specifications (i.e., GTFS)
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The person or persons responsible for GTFS data entry and maintenance will need to possess knowledge of the GTFS format and its best practices to effectively perform any necessary tasks. These may include running GTFS validation and determining whether a feed is usable, perform ing data transformation and geocoding tasks for entry into the Atlas, watching to ensure that new versions of a feed are entered before the prior version expires, and coordinating with those responsible for relationship management to obtain updated feeds when issues occur or a feed is near expiration.
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At minimum, such support will be needed when it is determined that a GTFS feed has errors or formatting inconsistencies preventing its use in the atlas; in this scenario, the inheriting organization would want to provide guidance to allow carriers to efficiently remedy issues uncovered during this process and better conform to best practices. The GTFS user guide for bus carriers, ticketing services, schedulers, and business development planners produced under Task 9 of this project can serve as a useful resource for this and should be integrated into support processes and distributed to interested parties.
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Beyond additional information directly from GTFS feeds themselves, some stakeholders have expressed interest in the inclusion of other geographic information, especially demographic data. The addition of layers showing population density, and especially the density of under served populations, from the U.S.
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