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TIDES Resources ¶
Implementation Approaches & Technical Architecture ¶
- Getting Started: High-level guidance for getting started with TIDES
- COMING SOON Implementation Guide: Detailed resource walking through implementation considerations based on data source and technical requirements
- TIDES Architecture Framework: A framework for approaching the data infrastructure setup to support a TIDES implementation
- COMING SOON Sample procurement language: Resources to add TIDES requirements to procurements
Use Case Profiles ¶
- COMING SOON National Transit Database (NTD) Reporting Use Case Profile: How TIDES can support NTD reporting requirements
- COMING SOON On-time Performance Use Case Profile: How TIDES can support on-time performance (OTP) reporting and analysis
Example Implementations and Code ¶
- tides-implementations: A repository of TIDES implementation examples
- WMATA SMART Data Hub writeup and wmata/sdh-open-source: A narrative description and the open-sourced code from WMATA’s SMART Data Hub TIDES implementation
- COMING SOON Cal-ITP code: The code from Cal-ITP’s GTFS-RT-to-TIDES conversion
- Mountain Line (MUTD in Missoula, MT) TIDES tools: Implementation overview, code, and tooling for working with TIDES data created by Mountain Line (MUTD), including a Polars-based TIDES schema validation library and an orchestration library for TIDES data transformations
- evansiroky/gtfs-rt-to-tides: A set of scripts to turn collected GTFS-RT into TIDES data
Sample Data ¶
- California TIDES data: Public TIDES-formatted data from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)’s Division of Data and Digital Services (DDS)
- evansiroky/magellan-elcano-tides: An example implementation of the TIDES Standard that describes the Magellan–Elcano expedition
- TIDES repo sample data: A framework for sharing TIDES data samples within the TIDES GitHub repo
Slide Decks and Presentations ¶
- “TIDES: Transit Data Pipelines, Not Silos” (TransportationCamp DC, January 2026): Introduction to TIDES.
- “Introducing the Common Transit Operations Data Framework” (Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2026): Overview of proposed data architecture/data infrastructure approach for working with TIDES data.
Official Specification and Documentation ¶
- TIDES Website: Official website for TIDES project.
- TIDES Specification: GitHub repository describing TIDES data.