Chicago CTA Bus Stop Locations in Illinois State Plane Projection

Point data representing locations of CTA bus stops, provided by the City of Chicago and last updated in November 2023. The data is projected in the NAD_1983_StatePlane_Illinois_East_FIPS_1201_Feet coordinate system and includes STATUS and POS fields for each stop.

Use Cases

• Map bus stop locations using the provided geospatial coordinates for urban planning analysis.
• Analyze the STATUS field to identify active versus inactive bus stops in the CTA network.
• Use the POS field to understand the physical orientation or placement of stops along routes.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative City of Chicago organization.
• Includes specific geospatial projection information (NAD_1983_StatePlane_Illinois_East_FIPS_1201_Feet).
• Contains specialized fields like STATUS and POS for each bus stop.

Limitations

• Unknown total number of bus stop records (rows).
• Requires specialized GIS software like ESRI ArcGIS to view or use the shapefile data.
• Data completeness and update frequency beyond the last update date are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

City of Chicago

Freshness

Last updated on 2023-11-24.

Geography

Chicago, Illinois, USA