MassDOT Developers Page

Welcome to the MassDOT Developers Page. The information and links found here are meant to serve as resources for developers interested in working with real-time and static transportation data made available by MassDOT.

MassDOT's Relationship With Developers

Please note: Any use of the Data on the MassDOT Developers Page acknowledges acceptance of MassDOT's Developer's License Agreement. (UPDATED 11/13/2009)
MassDOT and Developer's Relationship Principles (UPDATED 11/13/2009)
Developer's License Agreement (UPDATED 11/13/2009)

MBTA/Transit Highway RMV MassPort Planning Challenges

MBTA/Transit

Looking for MBTA data and web services? Visit MBTA.com/developers

Massachusetts Regional Transit Authorities

• Berkshire RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 11/30/2011)
• Brockton Area Transit Authority RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 03/27/2012)
• Cape Ann RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 4/18/2012)
• Cape Cod RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 03/27/2012)
• Franklin RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 03/27/2012)
• Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit (GATRA) (ZIP file updated 4/18/2012)
• Lexpress GTFS files (ZIP file updated 7/30/2009)
• Lowell RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 11/30/2011)
• Merrimack Valley RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 11/30/2011)
• Metrowest RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 03/27/2012)
• Montachusett RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 03/27/2012)
• Nantucket RTA GTFS files (ZIP file new 5/10/2012)
• Pioneer Valley RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 10/22/2009)
• Vineyard Transit Authority GTFS files (ZIP file updated 4/26/2012)
• Worcester RTA GTFS files (ZIP file updated 4/18/2012)

Massachusetts Ferry Service

• Massachusetts Cape, Island, and Commuter Ferry Service
  (ZIP file updated 8/20/2009)

Private Bus Carriers

• Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Co
  (ZIP file new 3/27/2012)
• Peter Pan
  (ZIP file new 3/27/2012)

Transit Partners

For more Massachusetts-based transit innovations, visit our partners:

• Bridgewater State Geographics Lab (real-time bus apps for MWRTA and CCRTA)
• UMass Amherst's Dieselnet Bus Tracker

Highway

MassDOT has released a BETA .xml feed of planned roadway events. This feed does not include all roadwork in Massachusetts, but it does include many of the construction, maintenance, and other events undertaken by the MassDOT Highway Division that may affect travel or traffic conditions on Massachusetts roadways. This is a BETA feed -- please send us suggestions for improvements.

MassDOT Event XML Feed Reference Documentation

Massachusetts Planned Roadway Events XML Feed BETA

MassDOT has shared access to its 511 cameras with developers and third-parties. Read the documentation below to find out how to integrate 511 traffic cameras into your website or application:

TrafficCamsXML PDF (PDF Document Last Updated 9/1/2009)

Registry of Motor Vehicles

Branch Wait-Time Feed

Description

Massachusetts Port Authority

• MassPort Airport Developers Data

Planning

Bicycle Data
MassDOT's bicycle data layer includes facilities at all points along the project development timeline from envisioned resources through constructed routes, lanes, and paths. Persistent identification of features across updates is supported through the use of a unique identifier. Other attached attributes cover links to the Road Inventory, principal names from overlapping naming schemes, relationship to the Bay State Greenway system described in the Massachusetts Bicycle Transportation Plan, development status, physical characteristics, involved agencies and entities, usage statistics, and references. Multiple subsets of bike data are incorporated in this one layer.

The Bay State Greenway is a proposed 740-mile statewide network of on- and off-road bicycle facilities traversing Massachusetts East-West and South-North along seven connected corridors. Some of its segments have already been constructed.

Existing facilities include bike lanes, cycle tracks, and signed routes on roads in addition to shared use off-road paths and unpaved trails suitable for use by wider-tired bicycles.

Facilities in feasibility study, design, or construction phases (including all types of on- and off-road facilities) have funding that is promised, programmed, or being disbursed for the given phase.

Proposed and envisioned facilities cover projects that have not yet entered the feasibility study phase but have been proposed in regional or municipal long-range plans or are being actively promoted by advocating entities.

We have two versions of this data, KML and Shape versions, available on this page. Both files contain the data layer as well as a data dictionary and a usage guide.

• Bike Layers KML Files (File Last Updated 5/10/2011)
• Bike Layers Shape Files (File Last Updated 5/6/2011)

Park & Ride Lots

• Park & Ride Lots