Open data
Did you come to the 2018 Spring Meeting (Leeds, 19 March)? As is our practice, we set a more forward-looking agenda at this event, including the latest on DfT's thinking about the Open Data aspects of the Bus Services Act 2017. It's clear that the data ecosystem is going to be increasingly important in public transport over the next decade or so.
You may remember that MaaS was the subject of last year's Spring Meeting. So it's noteworthy that Transport for the West Midlands has just launched its "Mobility as a Service" service, based on the Finnish app Whim. It will be interesting to see how this gets taken up.