Developers
OPEN DATA
Welcome to the Developers section. The STM wishes to provide developers with data about its bus schedules and routes and information about its metro service.
- Description of available data and a few STM specifications.
- More information about GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification)
- Comments and questions at dev@stm.info
USER LICENCE
By downloading the data contained in this section, you agree to these Terms of Use, as they may be updated and changed from time to time by the STM, at its entire discretion. If you do not agree to them, you must not use the site or download any material from it.
Please note that metro schedules are provided for your information and are used to determine how long a trip will take. They cannot be used to develop an application for metro schedules, as they are used only to estimate the time needed to travel between two stations.
STM's GTFS data
STM GTFS new features: Métro stations entrance points
STM is releasing métro entrance points in its GTFS feed:
- Beta version: June 2017
- Regular version: Sept 2017
Note: The current “no-entrances” version will not be available in September 2017.
Métro entrances are added to the stops.txt table. Fields such as location_type and parent_station are added to this table. The following objects (entrance and station) are now linked to the stops.
Specification: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference/gtfs-extensions#station-entrances
Comments and questions at dev@stm.info
The schedules will change in 2017 on the following dates:
January 9, March 27, June 19, August 28, October 30
The GTFS data are usually available 10 days before the schedule change .
Shapefile format for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Bus lines (shapes.txt) and bus stops (stops.txt) in the GTFS are available in shapefile format for easier integration into GIS. Shapefile specifications are available here.
Files available in MTM NAD83 Zone 8.