Free
forever tier for any transit agency
For small & mid-size transit agencies
Every tool a transit planner needs. One workspace.
Free for any transit agency: sketch and cost a service change as you draw, survey your stops from a phone, see your region’s Census demographics, and validate and export your GTFS, all on your own data in the browser. Pro adds impact and equity analysis, transit reach, route productivity and board-ready reports.
The free tier needs no credit card and no procurement: request a workspace with an agency email and we open it, normally within two business days. The live demo is a read-only sample network: a fictional agency on real streets, with real Census data.
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$7,500 / yr
full suite for up to 10 users, under the $15k micro-purchase threshold
90-day trial
every Pro feature on your own data, no card
The gap
Built for the agencies big vendors skip
Planning software is priced and staffed for the largest metros. Everyone else runs a transit system on spreadsheets and consultant studies.
Tools priced past your budget
Enterprise licenses, minimum contracts, and onboarding fees assume a big-metro budget. A 20-bus agency pays like a 500-bus one, so it usually buys nothing.
The same question, every service change
Who does this change affect, and by how much? Boards and public hearings ask before every major change, and most small agencies answer with a consultant study they can’t re-run.
Your data already exists
GTFS, ridership counts, and Census ACS are sitting there today. The analysis they could power rarely gets run in-house, because nothing connects them.
Transit Planner is built for exactly this gap: free to start, flat-priced, and running on the data you already have.
How it works
Three steps from GTFS to a board-ready report
1
Load your GTFS, sketch a change
Upload your agency’s feed, then re-route a line, cut or boost frequency, or add a crosstown. Save scenarios as you go.
2
See cost and impact live
Buses required, revenue-hours, and annual operating cost update as you draw. Overlay your region’s demographics to see who’s affected.
3
Produce the board-ready report
One click runs the equity analysis, including the FTA Circular 4702.1B four-fifths test, and exports the report as PDF or editable Word.
What you get
One workspace, six jobs planners actually have
Show who a change affects Pro
Before-and-after impact by route or system-wide, with minority and low-income results and the four-fifths test built in. Done in-house in minutes and exported as PDF or editable Word.
Price a change before you commit Free
Draw or edit a line and watch buses required, annual revenue-hours, and operating cost update live. Pro adds per-direction editing, the detour tool, and cost calibrated to your published cost basis.
Map your region’s demographics Free
Census ACS for your region: poverty, minority, zero-vehicle, seniors, youth, disability, limited-English, on the map. Pro adds stats and exports for any area you draw.
Survey your stops from a phone Free
Walk a corridor with the free Transit Field iPhone app and record shelter, bench, lighting, curb ramp, condition, and a photo per stop, GPS-sorted. Pro adds the ADA pedestrian-access assessment and report.
Check reach & job access Pro
Click any point to see who, and how many jobs, are reachable at 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 minutes, with the minority and low-income share of that reach.
Walk into the board meeting ready Pro
Service-change hearing packet, NTD report prep pack, board packet, productivity report. Assembled from your live data, exported as PDF or Word.
Proof
Proven on real networks, not sample data
Tested on real agency networks in Oregon, Washington and Michigan.
A regional transit district Pacific Northwest
Transit Planner runs on a regional agency’s full published GTFS network, calibrated to its published operating cost, with equity analysis on real service-change scenarios — real agency data, not sample data.
TriMet Portland, OR · founder’s prior program
Before LMAi Labs, our founder built and ran TriMet’s tablet-based on-board rider survey program as agency staff.
~30%cost savings vs. paper surveys
92%faster survey-to-insight
Network & annual operating cost
Real data, not a toy
Your live GTFS feed, your region’s ACS from the Census API, and your published cost basis, baked in.
Published methodology
The equity analysis follows FTA Circular 4702.1B (the four-fifths test and major-change triggers), with every step documented and auditable. Read the methodology
No lock-in
GTFS in, GTFS out. Reports export as PDF, Word, or JSON. Your data, your policy thresholds.
Built by transit people
LMAi Labs is Baofeng Dong: 10+ years across TriMet, Amazon, and Confluent, a TCRP panel member, and the program manager behind TriMet’s electronic rider-survey program. Transit Planner is built working directly with agency planners, and their feedback sets the roadmap.
See it on your network in 15 minutes
We load your GTFS and walk through one real service change with you: the cost, who it affects, and the report. No sales script.