# GTFS - General Transit Feed Specification

Added in version 3.7.

Driver short name

GTFS

Driver built-in by default

This driver is built-in by default

This driver can read a .zip archive containing text files following the GTFS specification.

The driver presents layers with their original structure, and:

- enhances the `stops` layer with Point geometries

- enhances the `trips` layer with LineString geometries reconstructed by joining the `trips` layer with `stops` and `stop_times` layers

- expose a `shapes_geom` layer, if the optional `shapes` is present by constructing LineString geometries.

## Open syntax

The connection name can be:

- a .zip filename containing GTFS .txt files

- a directory name prefixed with `GTFS:` (potentially a `/vsizip/path/to/the.zip` filename prefixed with `GTFS:`)

Alternatively, starting with GDAL 3.10, specifying the `-if GTFS` option to command line utilities accepting it, or `GTFS` as the only value of the `papszAllowedDrivers` of `GDALOpenEx()`, also forces the driver to recognize the passed filename.

## Driver capabilities

Supports VirtualIO

This driver supports virtual I/O operations (/vsimem/, etc.)

## Examples

List the contents of a GTFS local zip file:

Bash

    ogrinfo GTFS_Realtime.zip

gdal CLI

    gdal vector info GTFS_Realtime.zip

List the contents of a GTFS local directory:

Bash

    # specifying the driver
    ogrinfo GTFS:"/data/GTFS_Realtime"
    # specifying the input format
    ogrinfo /data/GTFS_Realtime -if GTFS

gdal CLI

    # specifying the driver
    gdal vector info GTFS:"/data/GTFS_Realtime"
    # specifying the input format
    gdal vector info /data/GTFS_Realtime --input-format GTFS

List the contents of a GTFS file at a URL:

Bash

    ogrinfo /vsicurl/https://www.transportforireland.ie/transitData/Data/GTFS_Realtime.zip

gdal CLI

    gdal vector info /vsicurl/https://www.transportforireland.ie/transitData/Data/GTFS_Realtime.zip

Extract the stops from the GTFS file and save into a FlatGeobuf file:

Bash

    ogr2ogr stops.fgb GTFS_Realtime.zip stops

gdal CLI

    gdal vector convert GTFS_Realtime.zip stops.fgb --input-layer stops

## Links

- GTFS Wikipedia page

- GTFS.org