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People use Real Time Information (RTI) for planning and making journeys across the various modes of transport available to them.
RTI has largely replaced the printed timetable as the key source of information on what journeys, routes and times for travel are possible in order to make a journey.
This has been made possible by the:
- availability of journey planner apps on smart phones;
- roll out of digital signs at transport stops.
RTI is critical to making and planning a successful bus journey in a dynamic transport network where multiple issues can affect the punctuality of a bus. People want to know: how far away my bus is not what timetable was it supposed to be running to.
What needs to be in place for RTI to work?
The simplicity of what is presented to a bus customer at a bus stop or in a journey planner belies the amount of systems
and dependencies that need to work together to produce a predicted departure time.
To help provide an understanding of what goes into producing RTI we have produced this interactive PDF guide to "How does bus real time information work"?
https://rtig.org.uk/documents/rtigt063-1