Using GTFS data to create Transit Route?

ESRI have a new tool that allow to add GTFS to a Network Dataset, display GTFS Route Shapes, edit GTFS Stop Locations, calculates transit/walking service areas for a specific time of day and day of the week, and more effective gadegets. There is also a blog avout this tool with samples to each procedure a lot of more links

You might want to look at OpenTripPlanner. There's an instance set up here that includes the MTA GTFS feeds. It was built with the transit index included, which can be queried via its API to find the nearest stops. The API can also be queried to plan trips.

An example query, to find stops near a point: http://opentrips.codeforphilly.org/opentripplanner-api-webapp/ws/transit/stopsNearPoint/?lat=40.749526&lon=-73.988231

There's a public AMI of the setup, if you're interested. The AMI is: ami-d9517ab0 "OpenTripPlanner Philly NJ NYC DE"

This link will go to launch an instance of it.

Notes in a Google doc, here: http://bit.ly/19aMdw1

I have a fully functional, open source , freely hosted, GTFS Editor here wayback machine saved link