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About FTISTransit agencies rely on various sources of data to help plan, manage, and improve transit facilities and services. Some of these data include the National Transit Database (NTD) from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), socioeconomic data from the Census Bureau and local planning agencies, land use data such as those from the county tax appraisal offices, transit route data maintained by transit agencies, TAZ maps maintained by planning agencies, etc. These data from different agencies are usually not ready to be used by transit agencies. To allow Florida’s transit agencies to make better use of these available data for better transit planning, the Public Transit Office of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) first contracted with the Lehman Center of Transportation Research (LCTR) at the Florida International University (FIU) in 2000 to develop the Florida Transit Information System (FTIS), a user-friendly software system designed specifically for transit planning applications. The current version of FTIS includes the following three major system components:
Where applicable, FTIS comes with the necessary analysis data and has been envisioned as a one-stop database system for transit planning in Florida. In its seventh year of continued development, FTIS has become a major software tool for the transit industry, with many users from across the country. The INTDAS component in particular has been used by the academia in their classes; transit agencies for their in-house analysis; researchers, consultants, and practitioners in their projects; etc. The FDOT Public Transit Office has generously made FTIS freely accessible to all. If you find FTIS useful in your projects or have suggestions to help further improve it, please do not hesitate to write to us by completing the form in this page. Read more on the history of FTIS development >> |
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