July Newsletter

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A busy month for European data

Germany's first GTFS Flex feed is now on the Mobility Database
Ten transit operators across rural Brandenburg are now sharing GTFS Flex data. This is the first Flex feed from Germany on the Mobility Database, published by Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB).

The feed covers fixed-stops demand responsive transit: riders book trips in advance, get matched with others heading the same way, and are picked up at any stop within a predefined group.

Athens, Helsinki, Kyiv and Tallinn are the latest European capitals added
Helsinki now has official real-time data alongside its existing schedule feeds on the Mobility Database. Official Estonian data has been updated. Official Athens and Kyiv GTFS data are new additions.

New GBFS feeds across Europe from Bird, Lime, Fifteen, nextbike, Dott, Voi
10+ new shared mobility feeds added this month across Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and Poland.

New community feed badge

The Mobility Database uses the official badge for feeds that are created on behalf of the transit authority. Until now, we haven’t had a way to describe unauthorized feeds that are created by community members. These feeds are often created in regions where official GTFS doesn’t exist or the data that does exist has persistent data quality issues.

Now you can see the community icon on both the search and individual feed pages. They appear when is_official = False.

🎉 Cool reuser alert!

Many thanks to Alexander Pazuchanics at Vianova I/O for using the Mobility Database for the PTAL-erizor tool. This tool uses Transport for London’s Public Transport Access Level (PTAL) framework to analyze public transport and shared mobility coverage.

Check out the tool yourself here.

🚀 Go to the Mobility Database to explore our community feeds and our new European data.