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The Government this morning published its Transport Data Strategy, setting out plans to improve how people find, use and get value from transport data to support greater innovation in the sector and deliver better services.
The press release: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/passengers-set-to-benefit-from-new-digital-transport-strategy
The Strategy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transport-data-strategy-innovation-through-data
The strategy builds on work the Department for Transport has already been doing which RTIG and many of our members have been involved in such as:
- Bus Open Data Service (BODS)
- Street Manager
- the development of the Rail Data Marketplace
- updating National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)
The Strategy was published alongside some other important documents we have been eagerly waiting for including:
- The future of the National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-future-of-the-national-public-transport-access-nodes-naptan-discovery-report-2022
- Work from a Treasury Economic Data Innovation Fund project with the urban observatories in Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle on cataloguing, opening and visualising the transport-related data from their sensor networks. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/towards-a-digital-twin-for-urban-transport
- Guidance for Local Authorities which sets out how they should share transport data https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-transport-sharing-data .
- An evaluation by Ipsos MORI of three transport data projects: 1. The Street Manager service; 2. The Bus Open Data Service (BODS); 3. Opening LA Transport Data. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/process-evaluation-transport-data-projects
The Strategy is divided into five themes:
- sharing, discoverability and access
- data standards and quality
- skills, culture and leadership
- user needs and communication
- governance, protection and ethics
with actions under each theme and it is well worth a read.