Use the Transit partner dashboard

You can set up, manage, monitor your transit feeds, and configure account access for users in your organization with the Transit partner dashboard. If you grant account access to a user, you can edit their access level or remove their access altogether.

Access the Transit partner dashboard

Important: To get access to the dashboard, make sure your email address is associated with a Google Account. Create a new Google Account, or learn how to associate an email with a Google Account.

In Google Transit, confirm that you're eligible to participate. Then you become ready to request participation.

If Google approves your request, it creates a Transit partner dashboard account for you. Your Transit partner dashboard lets you monitor and manage your feed. 

The Google Account you get in your interest form automatically gets owner access and can provide access to more users.

If you can’t open the Transit partner dashboard, contact your Google team.

Grant access to your account

Your have 3 levels of access control on your dashboard:

• Owner: Makes changes in the dashboard and adds or removes other users
• Writer (recommended): Makes changes in the dashboard, such as upload or configure a feed
• Reader: Has read-only access

You can choose whom to grant access to:

1. Open the Transit partner dashboard.
2. At the top left, click Share this account .
3. In the dialog box, enter the names or emails.
4. To change what people can do to your doc, on the right, click Down .
5. Choose:
   • Owner
   • Reader
   • Writer
6. Click Invite.

Customize notifications

Each user can customize notifications they receive from the Transit partner dashboard. To provide insight into any issues with your feed, you get email notifications regularly. You should provide at least one technical contact to address data issues in case we run into problems with your feed.

To provide the info that’s most relevant to you, set up notifications:

1. Open the Transit partner dashboard.
2. At the top right, click Settings .
3. Select Email notification settings.
4. To change your notification preferences, select an email account.
5. Choose:
   1. Always email
   2. Never email
   3. Email on error
   4. Email on non-empty fetches, warnings, or errors
   5. Email on empty fetches, warnings, and errors
   6. Email on warning and error
6. Click Save.

The following tables show the type of notifications you receive when you select each option.

	Acquisition Succeeded	Acquisition Failed	Empty Acquisition	Passed Validation	Failed Validation
Always email	X	X	X	X	X
Never email
Email on error		X			X
Email on non-empty fetches, warnings, or errors		X			X
Email on empty fetches, warnings, and errors		X	X		X
Email on warning and error		X			X

 

	Static Data Expiration Warning	Static Data Expired	New GTFS Live	Realtime Issues
Always email	X	X	X	X
Never email
Email on error		X		X
Email on non-empty fetches, warnings, or errors	X	X		X
Email on empty fetches, warnings, and errors	X	X		X
Email on warning and error	X	X		X

Tip: If you turn on notifications, you'll receive notifications for all email addresses listed under “Email notification settings” for your account.