UK tender hopes to boost beleaguered local bus services
The UK's Department for Transport is promising a £24 million contract to a tech biz that can help set up a wide range of data services to provide information on local bus services.
The DfT said it expected that the provision of high quality, accurate and open data would"help passengers plan journeys, find best value tickets and get real-time service updates whatever part of England they are in," according toThe search for better data in the pockets of passengers looking for a bus has been in-train for more than three years.
In 2020, DfT launched plans for the Bus Open Data Service , a digital service for making bus service information available as open data under the Public Service Vehicles Regulations. It allowed the transport minister to legislate and require bus operators to open data for local bus services across England on routes and timetables, fares and tickets and location information from 2020.From 31 December 2020, there was an obligation to provide bus timetable data to the service.
The paper said there are three times as many trips in England made by local bus than by rail, with more than 60 percent of all public transport journeys made by bus.
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