Arlington releases open transit data, on Google soon
Photo by Arlington County.
Arlington has released their ART bus route and schedule information in the open GTFS format, joining Alexandria’s DASH and DC’s Circulator in offering their schedule information to developers and Google for use in route-finding applications.
According to Arlington County, they have signed the partnership agreement with Google, which means that riders should be able to plan their trips on the ART bus service using Google Maps shortly. contacted Google about inclusion in Google Maps, but must still work through an agreement before riders can plan their trips on the ART bus service using Google Maps.
The feed is here, and Arlington has set up an RSS feed for developers to receive notifications about updates to the data.
WMATA also offers the data and an RSS feed, but hasn’t worked out an agreement with Google. Last we heard, WMATA and Google were negotiating over the details of the contracts. In response to inquiries, WMATA spokesperson Doug Karas said that “Discussions are moving forward.”