Free
forever tier for any agency, self-serve
For small & mid-size transit agencies
Every tool a transit planner needs. One workspace.
Sketch and cost scenarios as you draw, check productivity, reach, and Title VI equity, survey stops from your phone, manage your GTFS, and export board-ready, FTA-ready reports — on your own data, in the browser.
Free for any transit agency, no setup call. The demo is a real network: real GTFS, real Census data, read-only.
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$7,500 / yr flat
full suite, under the $15k federal 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
Per-seat 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.
Compliance you can’t skip
A Title VI equity analysis is required for every major service change, and a full Title VI Program every three years. Most small agencies outsource both, at study rates, every time.
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: self-serve, 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 & equity live
Buses required, revenue-hours, and annual operating cost update as you draw. Overlay your region’s demographics to see who’s affected.
3
Generate the Title VI report
One click runs the four-fifths disparate-impact test and exports an FTA-aligned report as PDF or editable Word.
What you get
One workspace, six jobs planners actually have
Pass your Title VI review Pro
The equity analysis that’s expensive to outsource, done in-house in minutes: four-fifths test, before/after by route or system-wide, 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 calibrates the model to your published cost basis.
See who a change affects 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 and record shelter, bench, lighting, curb ramp, condition, and a photo per stop, GPS-sorted. Pro turns the inventory into an ADA stop-assessment 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
Lane Transit District Eugene–Springfield, OR
Transit Planner is piloting with LTD planners: LTD’s full network, calibrated to the agency’s published operating cost, with Title VI runs on real service-change scenarios.
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 access · reach from a point
Real data, not a toy
Your live GTFS feed, your region’s ACS from the Census API, and your published cost basis, baked in.
FTA-aligned methodology
Built to FTA Circular 4702.1B: four-fifths test, major-change triggers, auditable end to end. 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.
Run your first scenario this afternoon
Create a free workspace, upload your GTFS, and see your network costed in the browser. No setup call, no credit card. You are in your own workspace the same afternoon.