From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 71 archived papers mentioned GTFS transit feeds in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Mar 2026 (5).
GTFS transit feeds was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Operations Research (1).
Most of them appeared in Public Transport (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), GTFS transit feeds was mentioned in 89 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (63), AI (14) and economics (11).
19 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Technical University of Munich (5), McGill University (4) and University of Leeds (4).
The journals publishing most of them were Transportation (14), Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (13) and Transport Policy (8).
The most-cited of them is “Public transport trip purpose inference using smart card fare data” (Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, 2018), with 160 citations.
Papers use GTFS transit feeds most often with OpenStreetMap (21), ImageNet (5) and American Community Survey (4); it has 7 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….
Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.
Papers use GTFS transit feeds most often with OpenStreetMap (21), ImageNet (5) and American Community Survey (4); it has 7 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy…. The whole network →
What papers use GTFS transit feeds together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Scholar4AI. (2026). GTFS transit feeds. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/gtfs-transit-feeds
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {GTFS transit feeds},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/gtfs-transit-feeds}},
urldate = {2026-11-05},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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