SFMTA GTFS: San Francisco Transit Schedules and Stops

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) transit stop and schedule data in the open GTFS format. The SFMTA publishes new transit schedules in this format as soon as schedule changes are planned and finalized, which occurs at least quarterly. This file contains scheduled service data, not real-time information.

Use Cases

• Modeling public transit network connectivity based on scheduled stops and routes.
• Analyzing planned service frequency and coverage for urban planning.
• Building trip planning applications using the standardized GTFS schedule data.

Strengths

• Data is published in the open, standardized GTFS format.
• Schedules are updated at least quarterly as changes are finalized.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data contains only scheduled service, not real-time vehicle positions or arrivals.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).

Collection Method

Published by the transit agency in the GTFS format.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-08 02:57:34.092299; freshness should be verified.

Geography

San Francisco, California, USA.