HeadwayGuides for transit planning teams
Practical explainers on the deliverables that fill a planner's year — Title VI equity analysis, NTD benchmarking, access measurement, GTFS analytics, and feed quality — written for practitioners who have to show their work. For news and deeper dives, see the blog.
GTFS analytics for transit planners: what a schedule feed can tell you
What a GTFS Schedule feed actually contains — and the service-supply and network metrics you can derive from it without any extra data.
Title VI / equityA practical guide to Title VI service-equity analysis (FTA Circular 4702.1B)
How to define minority and low-income populations, set policies, and run a service-equity analysis that holds up to FTA review.
NTD benchmarkingNTD peer benchmarking: how to choose peers and read the numbers
Building a defensible peer group from National Transit Database reports and interpreting cost, productivity and service metrics in context.
Access analysisAccess to opportunity: measuring jobs reachable by transit
Cumulative-opportunity access, isochrones and the data behind "how many jobs can a rider reach" — and why it matters for service decisions.
Feed qualityGTFS-Realtime validation: keeping your feed (and your analysis) trustworthy
Common GTFS-Realtime errors, what good validation checks for, and why feed quality is the foundation of every downstream metric.
Put these ideas to work on your own agency
Everything these guides describe is already computed for your agency in HeadwayForge — free on the Starter tier, with exports and saved work from $625/mo on Planner. No procurement needed to look.