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TransportAPI.com has been working with Ford to enable drivers to better analyse their driving. Together, we monitored Ford’s new connected car fleet for 80,000 hours and extracted 300GB of complex sensor data from the vehicles. By monitoring variables such as braking speed, gear shifts, windscreen wiper usage and engine speed (as well as weather and road...
First Group are launching a series of new apps for each of their operating businesses in the first half of 2017. The new apps include. “First Bus” on iOS and on android, and also “TransPennine Express” on iOS and Android, with more apps to appear over the next few months. With hundreds of thousands of downloads, these...
Photo CC-BY robertsharp59 on flickr Yesterday’s London marathon saw a record breaking 39,487 people complete the 26 mile run. With crowds of friends and relatives cheering them on along the route, how does this effect London’s transport network? tube-radar.com (powered by TransportAPI’s tube performance data) on Sunday showed the underground network running normally (green), but...
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Thingful “A Search Engine for the Internet of Things”, has recently been working with us to index some of our transport data within their platform. While the internet used to exist mainly on our computer screens, it is increasingly existing on connected devices. Not just smartphones, but also lamp-posts, kettles, rubbish bins and lots of...
The new Bus Services Bill which is going through the House of Lords at the moment has the potential to really shake up the transport data ecosystem in England. Currently 60% of all public transport journeys in England are by bus. That amounts to 4.65bn journeys per year. Buses are good for the economy (getting...
We love to see innovative applications of TransportAPI data and this recent dynamic ad campaign from Santander and Liveposter, a digital advertiser, impressed us. Our partner, Liveposter, blended realtime TransportAPI journey time data with Santander average house price data on Transvision screens across a number of London rail stations. Here’s the cool bit; specific...
This week we’re getting set up in new offices. A light, bright, new office a few minutes walk from Vauxhall station in Southwest London. Yes, we need more desks still. But we’re enjoying our sofa area! We’re also enjoying having our own space. It’s the first time we’ve ever had it! Over the years we’ve...
We recently took part in the “Smarter Travel hack weekend”, an event in the run up to the Smarter Travel Live conference (more on that later). As well as helping out all the other teams with making use of TransportAPI, I had the pleasure of working with Dan Cunnington of IBM, to form a small...
We’ve been working with first group for some time now. Recently they went live with a new “live bus” section on this website, powered by TransportAPI: As “enterprise” customers of TransportAPI we are consulting with them on the formats of transport data we can supply to them, and developing some customisations to our API to...
