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Register to start publishing on the Bus Open Data Service

If you run a local bus service in England you should have received an email inviting you to register for an account.

If you鈥檝e not received an email, or you鈥檙e a new operator, contact the Help Desk.

Once you鈥檝e registered, you鈥檒l be able to access .

Who must publish bus data

All operators who run local bus services in England outside London must publish their data. This includes operators of cross-border services such as those running into and outside of London and Wales 鈥� or Scotland into England.

Community bus operators with exemptions under Section 19 or 22 of the Transport Act 1985 do not currently have to publish their data.

This includes:

• coach services
• tour services
• unregistered dedicated school services or those services which have been voluntarily registered as a dedicated school service

However, tour services are not exempt if they take any passengers on point-to-point journeys rather than a full tour. All other local bus services are in scope for data publication.

Publishing your bus data

How to publish timetables data

All data must be published using the latest version of the TransXChange PTI profile. The detailed documentation describing the PTI profile is held on the .

TransXChange is the UK standard for exchanging bus schedules and related data. The TransXChange web pages provide an overview on TransXChange, including the TransXChange 2.4 schema, which explains the technical rules for producing TransXChange.

The easiest ways to produce TransXChange are to use:

• your existing timetabling software
• our TransXChange tool

TransXChange tool

The TransXChange tool enables you to produce PTI compliant TransXChange bus timetable data.

Download the (17.3 MB).

If you require a version for Mac or Libre Office, or if you need additional support, contact [email protected].

How to publish location data

We recommend that you contact your electronic ticket machine (ETM) supplier and ask them to share the automatic vehicle location (AVL) feed. They should be expecting your request and will know the information you will need.

Once you have this information, use BODS to publish this feed.

How to publish fares data

Operators who have ETM suppliers can also talk with them about hosted NeTEx solutions, or they can use the free service to produce data in NeTEx standard format.

Helping others to use your data

The bus open data service will provide bus timetable, vehicle location and fares data for every local bus service in England.

The 鈥楩ind bus data鈥� service explains how you can use access and use this data.

We鈥檒l expect application developers and researchers to access the data once it鈥檚 been published on BODS. It鈥檒l be important to maintain the data you鈥檝e published to ensure that journey planning applications are accurate and improve passenger experience.

Consumers will also be able to give feedback to you about the quality of your data to help improve and maintain it.

Contacts

To get in touch, email us at [email protected].