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TransportAPI’s Director of Delivery Dr David Mountain on our move to NOC Bus operator codes should be simple: each different operator should have their own distinct identifying code, and everyone should use that code, right? If only it was that simple. At the top level, we have the group franchises: First Group; National Express; Stagecoach,...
TransportAPI is the digital platform for transport. Our Enterprise services power the API backend providing core data supply for the mobile apps and websites for two of the top five transport operators in Britain, First Group and National Express, as well as Heathrow Airport. We work on joint projects with transport authorities such as Transport...
Today we are very pleased to announce that we have been selected by FirstGroup as its preferred transport data supplier, making sure that customers can access First travel information in as many places as possible. Whether customers want to access via PC, Laptop or Mobile their options for timetables and real time travel, information will be made...
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve teamed up with TransportAPI so from today, via your TransportAPI developer account, you can now access Taxicode’s extensive pricing matrix and database to get the price of a taxi from almost any location in the UK. The taxi market is hot right now, we’re seeing a big shift to people...
Monthly signups to TransportAPI are now averaging in excess of 40 a month and with more than 1,100 developers and organisations signed up to use TransportAPI we thought we’d share the demand curve. While it might be logical to think that interest would be highest in the transport sector in fact we are seeing huge...
We were very pleased that Transport Buzz was mentioned by BBC Click this week in its feature on intelligent cities of the future. Our data feed was used by Commonplace as part of their work for the Transport Systems Catapult in Milton Keynes. CNET recently said it was “a gold mine of schadenfreude and witticisms” and it certainly gives us some amusing data here in TransportAPI. So check it...
