18 Mar 2026 by Jonathan Raper
TransportAPI is delighted to announce a new partnership with Traveline for the delivery and development of the NextBuses service. NextBuses has been the key national live bus information source for over a decade, delivering over 100 million requests for real-time information (RTI) annually to bus travellers across Great Britain. TransportAPI and Traveline finalised the agreement today at Transport Ticketing Global 2026, which is being held at Kensington Olympia. TransportAPI can be found on stand G61.
TransportAPI will bring new value to the NextBuses service as an established provider of bus RTI at national scale. From the opening of the NextBuses - powered by TransportAPI service, there will be live data available in new areas, including Manchester and London. TransportAPI will also fill the gaps in rural areas between RTI schemes with new departure predictions based on Bus Open Data Service (BODS) SIRI-VM bus tracking data. More on this new service soon.
TransportAPI will fund and deliver the new ‘NextBuses - powered by TransportAPI’ Service going forward while Traveline continue to manage the relationships with local authorities providing data into the NextBuses Service. TransportAPI will provide the connection from the 70 upstream systems run by local transport authorities across Great Britain and will deliver it to developers using the SIRI-SM standard. NextBuses - powered by TransportAPI will run alongside the existing TransportAPI RESTful endpoints with both services offering the same comprehensive national service from all available bus RTI sources.