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We are a band of self-confessed geeks here at TransportAPI, and we like to concentrate on delivery at scale and with high data quality. We have been delivering billions of data responses per year to large organisations such as First Group, National Express and Transport for the North (amongst others) since 2012 and we now...
TransportAPI is expanding its team again and looking for a Lead Backend Engineer
At a time of huge change in public transport due to CoronaVirus it is especially important to have the most up-to-date information on your journey. However, until now non-rail disruption information has been published separately by each operator and/or local authority and there was no one place to go for updates on the services you...
Navigating today’s transport system requires the most accurate and up-to-date information available. TransportAPI are trusted by some of the largest transport operators, hubs and authorities in the UK to deliver this information to millions of UK travellers using apps, screens and alerts. Delivering billions of transactions per year to these travellers has required a 100-person...
We are delighted to announce that TransportAPI has been selected to deliver the Transport for the North (TfN) Open Data Hub (ODH) working with Trapeze Group. This is part of Phase Two of the £150 million, Department for Transport funded, Integrated and Smart Travel (IST) programme for TfN. The ODH will be TfN’s key data...
TransportAPI was founded as an open data company, and spent 18 months of its early life based at the Open Data Institute. We are proud therefore to continue giving free access to open transport data in a number of different ways. As we have done since 2012, we continue to offer you free transport data...
We’ve recently been converting our bus and train timetable data to GTFS. The General Transit Feed Specification is a simple data format for representing transport timetables as CSV files. Put forward originally by Google, it is now a widely adopted standard, particularly in the US, but increasingly in Europe and here in the UK. We...
TransportAPI is now powering the apps/ websites for First Group and National Express West Midlands, who together serve 25% of the country’s bus and rail market. Delivering this volume of traffic (over 1Bn API hits per year) and solving the integration challenges for the next generation of services is keeping the TransportAPI team very busy....
Future Cities Catapult recently asked us what areas UK bus operators cover. We deal with data from over a thousand UK bus operators. In general an operator will run bus services within a particular region, but some larger ones (and particularly operating “groups”) cover multiple regions. We decided to take a look at some of...
TransportAPI is available without signing up, in an offering supported by Future Cities Catapult. It’s something we mentioned briefly before, but how does this work? And what are the differences? How to use TransportAPI URLs are described in our API reference docs. Simply use any URL with an fcc. prefix, and without the app_id and...
