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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 and other systems to ensure that it is correct for the Christmas and New Year 2026-27 holiday period. 

There is a requirement to indicate non-passenger stops (driver rests, driver change over, depots, and waiting time stops) so that these can be included in TransXChange (TXC) files in National Coach Service Database (NCSD), and Bus Open Data Service (BODS) without requiring a stop to be created in the NaPTAN database by an authority. These locations are not used by the public to access or exit public transport, they are required for operational management purposes by operators.  

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Introduction 
Seamless multimodal and multi-operator travel across Europe is a major goal of EU transport policy. This goal is based on environmental arguments (less pollution, sustainability, EU climate targets), economic arguments (less energy consumption, less congestion) and social arguments (making it easier for citizens to work, study, and do business across borders).
One of the facilitators of this European transport is the development of a standard to integrate electronic ticketing for all public transport modes in all countries of Europe. 

At the start of July the DfT published a consultation on the Bus Services Act 2025: improving information about local services.

This can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/bus-services-act-2025-improving-information-about-local-services