OC Transpo Transit Routes

Individual vector transit routes for OC Transpo between 1929 and 2020. The transit route files for 1929-2015 were digitized in-house using ArcMap and scanned transit maps from OC Transpo using Ottawa and Gatineau open data files. Files are available in GIS (shapefiles), Google Earth (kml) and PDF files. The following information was collected for each transit route:

• Route Number
• Route Type (Regular, Peak, Express, Rural, etc.)
• Mode of Transportation (bus, train)
• Year

The data files for years 2016-2020 were produced using ArcGIS Pro GTFS toolset and the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) provided by the City of Ottawa. Each zipped folder under SHP for the 2016-2020 years contain the following:

• Stops
• TransitRoutesMaster (all routes)
• TransitRoutesSplit (shapefiles for individual routes)
• Readme file

Please take note that any topological errors generated from the GTFS raw data were not corrected. Users are welcome to make corrections if they notice a discrepancy between the system map pdf's and the datafiles. Route colour symbology in the KML and SHP files was changed for GTFS years to reflect the colours used in the system maps (the route colour codes are also listed in the attribute tables).

1929-2019

Grid Coordinate System: Universal Transverse Mercator
Projection: Modified 3 Degree Transverse Mercator Zone 9
Horizontal Geodetic Datum: NAD83
Units: Metres and Square Metres
Spheroid: GRS80 6378137.0 m 6356752.314 m
Central Meridian: -76.5
Easting/Northing Unit: Metres
False Easting: 304800.0
False Northing: 0
Latitude of Origin: 0
Maximum Latitude: 80 00 00
Maximum Longitude: -75 00 00
Minimum Latitude: 0 0 00
Minimum Longitude: -78 00 00
Scale Factor: 0.9999