Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Analytical Support Services IDIQ   3

Background
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is the principal federal statistical agency within the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). BTS provides trusted and statistically sound baseline, contextual, and trend information used to shape transportation policy, investments, and research across the U.S.

The agency is tasked with collecting, compiling, analyzing, and publishing comprehensive transportation statistics on the performance and impacts of the national transportation system. A key initiative is the Intercity Bus Atlas (ICBA) program launched in 2017 to create a web mapping application that displays scheduled intercity bus services in the U.S., addressing a gap in publicly available national maps for these services.

Work Details
The work involves maintaining and expanding the BTS Intercity Bus Atlas program. Key tasks include:
1. Collecting schedule information from participating intercity bus carriers, including stop names, locations, arrival/departure times, route names, and frequencies.
2. Extracting geospatial data from submitted schedules to create a national dataset of stops and routes.
3. Publishing this data as a web map and downloadable GIS layers on the BTS website.
4. Encouraging carriers to submit their schedules using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) format to optimize data integration with online trip planners.
5. Conducting quarterly updates of all feeds to ensure accuracy of the Intercity Bus Atlas.

Place of Performance
The geographic location for performance is not explicitly stated but is implied to be within the United States as it pertains to intercity bus services.