10 Sep 2025 by Jonathan Raper

Bristol Airport is the eight largest in the UK by passenger numbers and more than a million airport users travel to and from their flights by bus and coach every year as there is no rail station at the airport. To serve bus and coach travellers Bristol Airport have built a new Passenger Transport Interchange, which opened this summer.

Opening a new transport interchange means both physically moving the stops and re-routing services, but also rewiring the data infrastructure that supplies bus information screens and journey planners. TransportAPI supported Bristol Airport, North Somerset Council, transport operators and the West of England Combined Authority to get the essential changes done to a very short timetable. We have been delighted to see the new screens powered by TransportAPI managed services and presented by Azinq up and running at the new Passenger Transport Interchange.

Data infrastructure is still a very underestimated part of our national infrastructure, and this is nowhere more important than in Transport. We agree with Liam Henderson of The Rail Innovation Group who set out persuasively in his recent blog that this is the most valuable infrastructure you can’t see. This data has quietly become foundational to the way we live and now that TransportAPI responds to nearly one billion requests for transport data every month, we are proud that we play a key part in this infrastructure, working with customers like First Bus, Heathrow Airport, South Yorkshire Combined Authority and Northern Trains among many others.