Open Data

Parts 1 and 2 of the new standard for communications between content management systems and displays have been published.

https://www.rtig.org.uk/projects/CMS_PID_Interface

Following a workshop earlier in January this document has been produced to help understand how customer information systems can better be managed during the current driver shortage. 
This document identifies a number of actions that may help the industry longer term with managing high volumes of short notice changes and cancellations. 

The Bus services around the Christmas and New Year period will often operate differently to normal weeks. 

The data for use in services such as the Department for Transport Bus Open Data Service , Traveline, journey planners, real time systems and mobile phone apps all need to be updated to reflect the changed operation. 

This advice deals with how to prepare data for the BODS service to ensure that it is correct for the Christmas and New Year 2021 holiday period. 

The latest TransXChange v2.4 Public Transport Information profile has been released.

The current version is now 1.1.A, updated from v 1.1 on 5 July 2021.
Version 1.1.A is the version that the Bus Open Data Service will be using.

The v1.1.A is an update to v1.1, the changes largely being updates to fix implementation issues and inclusion of information on the BODS validator.

A track changes version and slide deck of the differences is available on the PTIC website:

Analyse Bus Open Data (ABOD) is a new extension service to the Bus Open Data Service (BODS), that provides free-to-access reporting and analytics to operators and authorities nationally.

The service is available now, providing a dashboard overview, feed monitoring, and on-time performance analyses.  Further features will also be added later in the year to provide geography-based views of network performance, along with other insights.

The Department for Transport have now updated the Bus Open Data implementation guide which offers practical advice to bus operators and local transport authorities to meet the Public Service Vehicle Open Data Regulations.

The guide now includes AVL and Fares information.

Read the updated guide here

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bus-open-data-implementation-guide/bus-open-data-implementation-guide

The SIRI VM profile guidance for providing location data to the BODS service has been published as a webpage:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-guidance-publishing-location-data-using-the-bus-open-data-service-siri-vm

Version 1.1 of the BODS Public Transport Information Profile for TransXChange has been released.

It is available from the PTIC website. In due course it will be available from an official  DfT location. 

https://pti.org.uk/system/files/files/TransXChange%20UK%20PTI%20Profile%20v1.1.pdf 

A version showing changes between v1 and v1.1 is available:

Version 1 of the BODS Public Transport Information Profile for TransXChange has been released.

There is no meaningful difference to the previous version that was circulated at the end of April. 
The only change is the removal of draft and uprating within the document to version 1. This has been done because of concerns that it should not be developed against because it was ‘draft’.

The statutory instrument for the Bus Open Data programme was recently formally made on 16th July and is now law.

Following the formal making we have updated it to reflect the latest understanding of requirements.

It covers a load of dates and data formats so we've produced a quick summary for you.

https://www.rtig.org.uk/system/files/documents/RTIGT040-2.0%20BODS%20SI%20Dates%20and%20Formats.pdf