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Reading RailAir operate luxury coach routes connecting Heathrow Airport to major rail stations in Reading, Guildford and Woking. This encourages people catching flights to lower their carbon footprint by choosing public transport for their inbound and onward travel. Reliable real time information is key to building trust in public transport, and for no group of...
Bus route geometry is a fundamental building block for public transport information. Bus schedules tell you which buses will depart what stop, when, and bus stops often have a point latitude and longitude associated with them. But without the street-level geometry between stops, bus routes are jagged, cut across the road network, and do not...
Showing the location of buses on a map is a game-changer for Real Time Information. No matter how accurate the predicted arrival times of buses at stops, this information alone falls short of the Uber app experience that users now expect. Telling a user that a bus is three minutes away is useful, but without...
TransportAPI has worked closely with First Group for a number of years as its Managed Service provider of choice for transport data. We are continuously iterating our software and had rolled out our new Buses on a Map functionality before the onset of COVID-19. This feature was widely welcomed by First Group App users. And then,...
Like so many other organisations around the World, we at TransportAPI have had our workloads radically reprioritised as a result of COVID-19. We’ve temporarily paused many of the long-term projects we have been working on, and instead focussed on how we can provide the most accurate schedule and real time transport information we can, at...
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...
We are excited to announce that National Express West Midlands (NXWM) has appointed TransportAPI to provide our Enterprise service to power new NXWM digital services being launched this autumn. TransportAPI will be working with NXWM partners including McCann Birmingham to integrate a range of data feeds to enhance digital services over the next two years....
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...
