Description: The MBTA Rapid Transit Station layers represents the station stops on the five subway, streetcar/trolley and Silver Line bus lines in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s rapid transit rail network. Stations are contained in a point feature class named MBTA_NODE. The five ‘T’ lines - Blue, Green, Orange, Red and Silver - are represented with linework in the layer MBTA_ARC. The layers were developed by the Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS), with additional editing by MassGIS based on current information from mbta.com. The MBTA Commuter Rail lines are included in the TRAINS_ARC layer. It should be noted that the Silver Line actually consists of buses, not trains, but the line is included in this layer because the MBTA includes it as part of its Subway system (see http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/).
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Copyright Text: Central Transportation Planning Staff, mbta.com, MassGIS
Description: This dataset contains representations of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) bus stops for the Summer, 2013 schedule. The layer was developed by the Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). The primary input source was the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) shapes, stops and stop-times files produced by the MBTA for each quarterly schedule. The shapes file provides a sequence of point coordinates for each route; the stops file provides the coordinates of each transit stop and station; a sequential list of stops by route was extracted from the stop-times file, which provides scheduled departure times by stop for each trip. The stop lists by route were edited to match those obtained from the MBTA's schedule database. Point feature classes were generated from the shape and stop coordinate files, and their features snapped to Massachusetts Department of Transportation roadway inventory features. Stop points underwent further edits to improve locational accuracy.
Service Item Id: d6298ef4a3cf4c1d82af1b4f36c25dfa
Copyright Text: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS), Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
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Description: This dataset contains representations of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) bus routes for the Summer, 2013 schedule. The layer was developed by the Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). The primary input source was the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) shapes, stops and stop-times files produced by the MBTA for each quarterly schedule. The shapes file provides a sequence of point coordinates for each route; the stops file provides the coordinates of each transit stop and station; a sequential list of stops for each route was extracted from the stop-times file, which provides scheduled departure times by stop for each trip. The stop lists by route were edited to match those obtained from the MBTA's schedule database. Point feature classes were generated from the shape and stop coordinate files, and their features snapped to Massachusetts Department of Transportation roadway inventory features. Shape points underwent further edits to match the path through the stops along the route and to include each vertex on the underlying roadway features traversed by the route. A polyline feature for each route was then generated from the shape points using the ArcGIS Points to Line tool. Each line feature was converted to a route using the CreateRoute linear referencing tool.
Service Item Id: d6298ef4a3cf4c1d82af1b4f36c25dfa
Copyright Text: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Central Transportation Planning Staff, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization