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Auckland Transport's Open Transit Feeds: GTFS Timetables and Real-Time Vehicle Data

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Auckland opens its live bus, train and ferry feed to any registered developer. The auditor found the part riders need most, the disruption alerts, is still entered by hand.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📊 Independent
what does this mean?The strongest source is an independent non-academic evaluation: an audit office, a government or EU review, or an NGO. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byAuckland Transport (council-controlled organisation of Auckland Council)
Scale🗺️ Regional

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Auckland Transport publishes its timetables as a downloadable GTFS file and its vehicle positions, trip updates and service alerts as a GTFS Realtime feed open to any developer who registers for free. A beta API opened before a May 2014 hackathon; real-time GTFS data reached registered users only in November 2015, after a developer used an official information request to ask when the API would stop serving mocked data. AT's own AT Mobile app uses the same APIs. AT says the data it releases is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, but the developer portal's terms say their licence does not apply to the datasets themselves. In May 2025 the Auditor-General found that AT's disruption alerts are entered manually and that ferry tracking is not always accurate.

Live 📅 since 2014

📊 Impact

No source measures an effect of publishing the feeds themselves. What the Auditor-General recorded in May 2025 is what the tracking data changed inside Auckland Transport: it uses the information to measure the reliability and punctuality of every mode, in 2023/24 it introduced a reliability measure that considers services that were cancelled or did not start their route within a reasonable time, and it has strengthened reliability and punctuality expectations in its operator contracts in line with improvements in its ability to track their services. Outside AT, a University of Auckland statistician described in August 2022 bots that report punctuality, cancellations and headways for Auckland buses from the AT GTFS feed, and warned that some outliers appear to be errors, such as buses that start updating their position long before a trip or keep updating long after it.

🎓 Lesson

An open feed answers whether the data exist, not whether they are complete. Bus positions in Auckland come from automatic vehicle location devices, but the auditor found that the information a passenger most needs at a stop, that a trip is disrupted, still depends on operators notifying AT and on staff entering it by hand, with limited or no information about unplanned disruptions outside business hours. The paperwork matters too: an outside count of cancellations built on the feed is only as complete as the alerts AT types in, and a developer reading the API terms finds a licence for the portal's pages, not for the data.

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Sources

↗ Auckland Transport — AT data sourcesAuckland Transport's open-data page: the data it releases is free to use and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; the APIs are provided under the developer portal's separate API terms; lists real-time alerts, vehicle locations and trip updates among the API data.
↗ Auckland Transport — General Transit Feed SpecificationThe download page for AT's static GTFS timetable file, stating a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence; the file itself carried an update date of 12 October 2026 when read.
↗ Auckland Transport developer portal — home pageStates that use of the APIs requires a free registration, sets limits of 600 calls a minute and 35,000 calls a week, and says AT's own AT Mobile app uses these APIs.
↗ Auckland Transport developer portal — Getting started with the Realtime APITechnical description of the real-time feed: GTFS Realtime trip updates, vehicle positions and alerts for buses, trains and ferries, updated at least every 30 seconds, with vehicle identifiers from automatic vehicle location devices.
↗ Auckland Transport developer portal — API terms of useThe portal's terms license material on the site under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand and state that this licence does not apply to the datasets themselves, whose licences (if any) are selected by the source agencies.
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↗ Auckland Transport — Hackathon winners make life easier (26 May 2014)Auckland Transport press release on the HACKAKL:Transport hackathon: in the run-up AT made available a beta API covering real-time bus information, geo-coding, roading and congestion data.
↗ FYI.org.nz — official information request "AT API - Communications and Release dates" (2015)Published 11 August 2015A developer's official information request asking when the real-time API would serve real rather than mocked data, with Auckland Transport's replies; on 26 November 2015 AT said GTFS real-time data could now be made available to fully registered API users.
↗ Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 4 (13 May 2025)Independent performance audit: AT Mobile is AT's main information channel; disruption alerts are entered manually from templates; information through AT's portals might not always be accurate; AT communicates only a small percentage of roadworks disruptions to buses and gives limited or no information on unplanned disruptions outside business hours.
↗ Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)Independent performance audit: automatic vehicle location devices feed AT's Command Centre; ferry tracking is not always accurate; AT uses the tracking data to measure reliability and punctuality and has strengthened operator contracts as tracking improved.
↗ University of Auckland, Department of Statistics — The bus bots (19 Aug 2022)A University of Auckland statistician describes bots that report punctuality, cancellations and headways for Auckland buses from the AT GTFS feed, and the errors found in the feed.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2014. 5 of 10 sources carry a publication date, from 26 May 2014 to 13 May 2025.

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  1. Auckland Transport · operatorAuckland Transport — Hackathon winners make life easier (26 May 2014)
  2. FYI.org.nz · platformFYI.org.nz — official information request "AT API - Communications and Release dates" (2015)
  3. University of Auckland · researchUniversity of Auckland, Department of Statistics — The bus bots (19 Aug 2022)
  4. Office of the Auditor-General (New Zealand) · oversight bodyOffice of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 4 (13 May 2025)
  5. Office of the Auditor-General (New Zealand) · oversight bodyOffice of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)

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Claim 1 clm-074989ad00b4c95a descriptive
Auckland Transport publishes its timetables as a downloadable GTFS file and its vehicle positions, trip updates and service alerts as a GTFS Realtime feed open to any developer who registers for free
Published field
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What the mapping says
The developer portal says AT is responsible for all of the region's transport services except state highways and that registration for its APIs is free. The GTFS page offers the timetable file for download, and the Realtime API page describes trip updates, vehicle positions and alerts for buses, trains and ferries in the GTFS Realtime model.
Caveat
The portal also caps use at 600 calls a minute and 35,000 a week; only the static timetable file is downloadable without registering.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Auckland Transport developer portal — home page
  2. Auckland Transport — General Transit Feed Specification
  3. Auckland Transport developer portal — Getting started with the Realtime API
Claim 2 clm-8245633679f97610 quantitative
A beta API opened before a May 2014 hackathon
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What the mapping says
Auckland Transport's release on its first civic hackathon says that in the run-up to the May 2014 event AT made available a beta API covering real-time bus information, geo-coding, roading and congestion data.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Auckland Transport — Hackathon winners make life easier (26 May 2014)
Claim 3 clm-6d78ebcbf8d4a118 quantitative
real-time GTFS data reached registered users only in November 2015, after a developer used an official information request to ask when the API would stop serving mocked data
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The published request asks when the real-time API will supply real data instead of mocked information; Auckland Transport's reply of 26 November 2015 says the real-time GTFS data can now be made available to registered API users who are fully registered in its customer system.
Caveat
The request thread documents the release to registered users, not a public announcement; the requester's own account is that an earlier promised date of late October 2015 was missed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. FYI.org.nz — official information request "AT API - Communications and Release dates" (2015)
Claim 4 clm-f3369633b9f188f7 descriptive
AT's own AT Mobile app uses the same APIs
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What the mapping says
The developer portal says AT Mobile uses AT's APIs to help users plan and track journeys across bus, train and ferry services.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Auckland Transport developer portal — home page
Claim 5 clm-fc7e57d31012c8c4 quantitative
AT says the data it releases is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, but the developer portal's terms say their licence does not apply to the datasets themselves
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What the mapping says
AT's data-sources page and its GTFS download page both state a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. The developer portal's terms license the site's own material under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand and say that licence does not apply to the datasets, whose licences, if any, are selected by the source agencies.
Caveat
The two documents do not contradict each other outright: the terms defer to the source agency, which for AT's own data is AT. What neither says is which licence governs the real-time feed delivered through the API.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Auckland Transport — AT data sources
  2. Auckland Transport — General Transit Feed Specification
  3. Auckland Transport developer portal — API terms of use
Claim 6 clm-47ef7b2bd846ecd1 quantitative
In May 2025 the Auditor-General found that AT's disruption alerts are entered manually and that ferry tracking is not always accurate
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What the mapping says
The audit says staff manually update disruption information in AT's Command Centre system, using pre-approved templates to generate alerts and notifications to the public, and that AT tracks all ferries in real time but the data is not always accurate, because skippers bypass wharves, vessels are misallocated to routes and boats pass other wharves' GPS locations.
Caveat
The audit describes the alerts AT issues to the public through its channels; it does not examine the developer feed as such. The report was issued by the Deputy Auditor-General.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 4 (13 May 2025)
  2. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)
Claim 7 clm-3af01bb958be0050 descriptive
No source measures an effect of publishing the feeds themselves.
Published field
impact · verbatim
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What the mapping says
Neither the audit nor the outside analysis attributes any change in service, ridership or reliability to the open feeds; the audit's findings concern AT's internal use of the tracking data. The statement is a finding of absence across the listed sources, so it has no locator.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)
  2. University of Auckland, Department of Statistics — The bus bots (19 Aug 2022)
Claim 8 clm-523a1d4cdd5787dd descriptive
it uses the information to measure the reliability and punctuality of every mode
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The audit says AT uses the tracking information it collects to measure services' reliability and punctuality for all types of public transport, and sets out its definitions of a reliable and a punctual service.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)
Claim 9 clm-6c851eef6cc42d57 quantitative
in 2023/24 it introduced a reliability measure that considers services that were cancelled or did not start their route within a reasonable time
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The audit records that in 2023/24 AT introduced a reliability measure counting cancelled services and services that did not start their route within a reasonable time, after revising its punctuality measure in 2022/23 to include the last stop.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)
Claim 10 clm-e319cd5156029346 descriptive
it has strengthened reliability and punctuality expectations in its operator contracts in line with improvements in its ability to track their services
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The audit states that AT has strengthened its reliability and punctuality expectations in its contracts with operators in line with improvements in its ability to track their services, most recently with ferries.
Caveat
The audit reports the change in contract terms; it does not measure whether punctuality or reliability improved as a result.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)
Claim 11 clm-01e4b3faa3789e27 quantitative
a University of Auckland statistician described in August 2022 bots that report punctuality, cancellations and headways for Auckland buses from the AT GTFS feed
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What the mapping says
The post, dated 19 August 2022, describes Twitter and Mastodon bots that report punctuality, cancellations and headway statistics for Auckland Transport buses from the AT GTFS feed, running on a University of Auckland virtual machine with a free AT account.
Caveat
A personal project described on a university page, not a commissioned evaluation; whether the bots still run in 2026 is not established.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. University of Auckland, Department of Statistics — The bus bots (19 Aug 2022)
Claim 12 clm-222c52b168fd0cb3 descriptive
warned that some outliers appear to be errors, such as buses that start updating their position long before a trip or keep updating long after it
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The author writes that many punctuality outliers appear to be errors, citing buses that start updating their position long before a trip or keep updating long after it finishes, and possible wrong trip entries by drivers.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. University of Auckland, Department of Statistics — The bus bots (19 Aug 2022)
Claim 13 clm-5c4fe620f2444d4b descriptive
Bus positions in Auckland come from automatic vehicle location devices
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The audit says automatic vehicle location devices on buses collect data and transmit it to AT's Command Centre; the Realtime API page says vehicle identifiers in the feed come from AVL devices installed on buses, trains and ferries.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025)
  2. Auckland Transport developer portal — Getting started with the Realtime API
Claim 14 clm-ff6b810f258f47ee descriptive
still depends on operators notifying AT and on staff entering it by hand, with limited or no information about unplanned disruptions outside business hours
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The audit says operators still need to notify AT about the nature of a disruption and staff must enter it into the system, so the processes remain largely manual, and that this reliance provides limited or no information about unplanned disruptions outside AT's business hours.
Caveat
AT told the auditor that it has since extended the team's hours by one hour and that in its view the covered period includes most services.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 4 (13 May 2025)
Claim 15 clm-8e445d2d8a790c15 descriptive
an outside count of cancellations built on the feed is only as complete as the alerts AT types in
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The bots count a cancellation when a service alert in the feed carries a no-service or reduced-service effect and the word Cancellation, so they see only the cancellations AT has posted as alerts; the audit found AT often lacks timely information about roadworks affecting buses and communicates only a small percentage of those disruptions.
Caveat
This is the atlas's reading of how the two sources fit together; neither source compares the outside count with AT's own cancellation records.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. University of Auckland, Department of Statistics — The bus bots (19 Aug 2022)
  2. Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 4 (13 May 2025)
Claim 16 clm-4776a8c7494cf0b9 descriptive
a developer reading the API terms finds a licence for the portal's pages, not for the data
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The terms state that the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence applies only to copyright material on the site itself and not to the actual datasets.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Auckland Transport developer portal — API terms of use
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Auckland Transport (council-controlled organisation of Auckland Council)
Actor types
city-government
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public
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10 source dossiers

Auckland Transport — AT data sources at.govt.nz · 1 linked claim

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src-67218176dd5db9fe
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Name not classified · at.govt.nz
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-10-15
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2026-10-15
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Auckland Transport's open-data page: the data it releases is free to use and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; the APIs are provided under the developer portal's separate API terms; lists real-time alerts, vehicle locations and trip updates among the API data.

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Auckland Transport — General Transit Feed Specification at.govt.nz · 2 linked claims

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Name not classified · at.govt.nz
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2026-10-15
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2026-10-15
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The download page for AT's static GTFS timetable file, stating a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence; the file itself carried an update date of 12 October 2026 when read.

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Auckland Transport developer portal — home page dev-portal.at.govt.nz · 2 linked claims

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2026-10-15
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States that use of the APIs requires a free registration, sets limits of 600 calls a minute and 35,000 calls a week, and says AT's own AT Mobile app uses these APIs.

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Auckland Transport developer portal — Getting started with the Realtime API dev-portal.at.govt.nz · 2 linked claims

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Technical description of the real-time feed: GTFS Realtime trip updates, vehicle positions and alerts for buses, trains and ferries, updated at least every 30 seconds, with vehicle identifiers from automatic vehicle location devices.

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Auckland Transport developer portal — API terms of use dev-portal.at.govt.nz · 2 linked claims

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The portal's terms license material on the site under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand and state that this licence does not apply to the datasets themselves, whose licences (if any) are selected by the source agencies.

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Auckland Transport — Hackathon winners make life easier (26 May 2014) scoop.co.nz · 1 linked claim

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2014-05-26
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Auckland Transport press release on the HACKAKL:Transport hackathon: in the run-up AT made available a beta API covering real-time bus information, geo-coding, roading and congestion data.

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FYI.org.nz — official information request "AT API - Communications and Release dates" (2015) fyi.org.nz · 1 linked claim

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2015-08-11
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A developer's official information request asking when the real-time API would serve real rather than mocked data, with Auckland Transport's replies; on 26 November 2015 AT said GTFS real-time data could now be made available to fully registered API users.

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Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 4 (13 May 2025) ao.parliament.nz · 3 linked claims

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Independent performance audit: AT Mobile is AT's main information channel; disruption alerts are entered manually from templates; information through AT's portals might not always be accurate; AT communicates only a small percentage of roadworks disruptions to buses and gives limited or no information on unplanned disruptions outside business hours.

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Office of the Auditor-General — Reliability of public transport in Auckland, Part 5 (13 May 2025) ao.parliament.nz · 6 linked claims

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2025-05-13
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2026-10-15
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2026-10-15
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Independent performance audit: automatic vehicle location devices feed AT's Command Centre; ferry tracking is not always accurate; AT uses the tracking data to measure reliability and punctuality and has strengthened operator contracts as tracking improved.

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University of Auckland, Department of Statistics — The bus bots (19 Aug 2022) stat.auckland.ac.nz · 4 linked claims

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2022-08-19
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A University of Auckland statistician describes bots that report punctuality, cancellations and headways for Auckland buses from the AT GTFS feed, and the errors found in the feed.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Auckland Transport's Open Transit Feeds: GTFS Timetables and Real-Time Vehicle Data” — Auckland, New Zealand. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/auckland-transport-open-data/ (last verified 2026-10-15). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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