27 Feb 2025 by Jonathan Raper

TransportAPI has built a national-scale bus and rail archiving infrastructure that transforms historical transport data into accessible services for various applications and customers…

22 Jan 2025 by Jonathan Raper

Since 2018 the Department for Transport-funded Future Transport Zones (FTZs) in W. Midlands, West of England, Solent, and Derby/ Nottingham have been experimenting with technology to implement Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). The Future Transport Forum 2025 in Southampton on 22-23 January 2025 is bringing together all of the FTZ teams to share lessons learned and TransportAPI is proud to be supporting the event as an exhibitor…

09 Jan 2024 by David Mountain

In 2024, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority launched a much revamped version of their Travel South Yorkshire (TSY) app, that makes it easier for residents and visitors to navigate the region’s public transport network. Designed with the user in mind, the app offers…

19 Dec 2024 by Jonathan Raper

Over the last 3 years TransportAPI has published all of the Bus Open Data Service (BODS) datasets through our managed services. Some of the data has proved extremely useful such as automated vehicle location (AVL) and bus route geometry, and this shows the way to go for BODS in the future.

However, some of the BODS output has been over ambitious, and it has not reached its potential. The bus fares data is the principal example of this as the tooling has not been there for operators to publish comprehensive fares…

19 Sep 2024 by Jonathan Raper

When TransportAPI supported the Connected Places Catapult Intelligent Mobility Accelerator a couple of years ago we were introduced to Pluvo a rapidly growing SME who develop pioneering clean air technologies. Pluvo have a brilliant proposition: install an air filtration column in polluted environments…

21 Jun 2024 by Jonathan Raper

Performance statistics measured by the rail industry are very focused on punctuality and cancellations. Look at the Office or Road and Rail Passenger Rail performance report for January to March 2024 and you will see Public Performance Measure – PPM) covering on-time arrival at the train’s destination. You will also find reliability defined as the percentage of trains cancelled on the day or pre-cancelled due to last minute resource availability shortage…