Technical Documents

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 2025-26 holiday period. 

This document has been produced in conjunction with Transport for Wales to support the standardisation of the interface between content management systems and displays.

This document is Part 3 covering messages types for graphical displays and is part of a series of documents covering different aspects of the standard.

This document has been produced in conjunction with Transport for Wales to support the standardisation of the interface between content management systems and displays.

This document is Part 2 covering Common Data Structures and Core Content Messages (applicable to all display types) and is part of a series of documents covering different aspects of the standard.

This document has been produced  in conjunction with Transport for Wales to support the standardisation of the interface between content management systems and displays.

This document is Part 1 covering the architecture and is part of a series of documents covering different aspects of the standard.

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:

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.  

Auracast Bluetooth is a new wireless audio broadcasting technology that extends the capabilities of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio. It allows a single audio source to broadcast to an unlimited number of nearby Bluetooth receivers, making it ideal for public announcements, assistive listening, and social audio sharing.

This briefing note introduces the technology and outlines some of its potential uses.

With the near ubiquitous provision of location data for the bus fleet in the UK within reach, it is timely to consider why different information may be presented to the passenger on different outputs.

This report sets out to address this gap in understanding.

The Accessible Information Regulations were signed into law in 2023.

What do they require operators to do? this document provides a summary of why the regulations have been introduced and the key requirements.

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the digital provision of priority to public transport at signalised junctions. 

Existing work from RTIG: specifically, the documents T008 andT031, provide the specification and methodology for the transmission of data from public service vehicles, such as buses and trams, to traffic signals. These provide technical frameworks to provide priority for public transport vehicles at signalised junctions in an interoperable manner.