About
Transit analytics for small & mid-size agencies
Marga helps teams answer network questions by connecting schedule, demographic, ridership, and financial data in one place. Built for the planners, schedulers, and data staff at small and mid-size transit agencies.
Our Mission
We believe good transit decisions should not depend on the size of an agency's data team. Marga's mission is to put defensible, evidence-based analysis within reach of small and mid-size transit agencies, so every team can inspect its service data, explain its tradeoffs, and make decisions riders can trust.
The Problem
Service data should be easier to audit
Basic questions — peak headways, coverage gaps, how you stack up against peer agencies — live across GTFS, NTD, and ridership files that are hard to join and harder to re-run, so they get asked less often than they should.
And the gap compounds: findings surface late, fixes wait for the next service change, and the analysis lives in one person's spreadsheet instead of somewhere the whole team can build on. Agencies — and their teams — deserve tools as good as their data.
Our Approach
Ask your data, get real answers
Marga helps transit agencies turn GTFS, Census, and NTD data into defensible service insights your team can inspect, explain, and act on. Upload your GTFS feed and Marga gets to work. A Daily Briefing surfaces the findings worth your attention — frequency and span, coverage and equity, operations and peer benchmarks, even feed-health issues — then you drill into any of them by asking follow-ups in plain English. Marga runs deterministic analysis and explains the results; every number is computed from your own GTFS, Census, and NTD data, never generated by AI.
Design Principles
What we believe
No hallucinated numbers
Every number comes from deterministic analysis. AI explains but never invents data.
Built for transit
Purpose-built for GTFS data and transit planning workflows, not a generic AI bolted onto a dashboard.
Open standards
Built on GTFS (open), Census (public), NTD (public), PostgreSQL/PostGIS (open source).
Human-in-the-loop
Marga-generated reports are built for staff review. Analysts and agency teams make the final decisions.
Beta
Free for early agencies
We're onboarding a small group of agencies to shape the product. Early partners get full access, priority support, and a voice in the roadmap.
Try the demo with 10 free questions — no sign-up needed.
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