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The Bus services around the Christmas and New Year period will often operate differently to normal weeks. 

The data for use in services such as the Department for Transport Bus Open Data Service , Traveline, journey planners, real time systems and mobile phone apps all need to be updated to reflect the changed operation. 

This advice deals with how to prepare data for the BODS and other systems to ensure that it is correct for the Christmas and New Year 2023-24 holiday period. 

Public transport, and buses in particular, are facing challenges at every turn: slow recovery from the covid collapse in passenger numbers, inflation increasing cost base, driver recruitment and retention, and of course traffic congestion.

How can we make the bus more attractive to encourage more people to use it?

Today we have published advice on how to prepare data for the BODS and other service to ensure that it is correct for the Coronation of The King and The Queen Consort bank holiday on 8 May 2023.

The Bus services around bank holidays will often operate differently to normal weeks.  The data for use in services such as the Department for Transport Bus Open Data Service (BODS), Traveline, journey planners, real time systems and mobile phone apps all need to be updated to reflect the changed operation. 

The Bus services around the Christmas and New Year period will often operate differently to normal weeks. 

The data for use in services such as the Department for Transport Bus Open Data Service , Traveline, journey planners, real time systems and mobile phone apps all need to be updated to reflect the changed operation. 

This advice deals with how to prepare data for the BODS and other systems to ensure that it is correct for the Christmas and New Year 2022-23 holiday period. 

This advice deals with how to prepare data for the BODS service to ensure that it is correct for the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

https://www.rtig.org.uk/documents/rtigt052-1

The Bus Open Data Service (BODS) has been successful in attracting a wide range of data consumers to explore the timetable data available. Following conversations with some of these data consumers it was identified that there needed to be some additional advice and support on how to understand different versions of timetables that have been provided to BODS.

The second draft of Part 3 of the CMS to PID interface has been published.

This is will reviewed in a workshop in a couple of weeks.

https://www.rtig.org.uk/documents/rtigt047-pt3-02

Today we have published advice on how to prepare data for the BODS and other service to ensure that it is correct for the Platinum Jubilee long weekend 2nd to 5th June 2022.

The Bus services around bank holidays will often operate differently to normal weeks.  The data for use in services such as the Department for Transport Bus Open Data Service (BODS), Traveline, journey planners, real time systems and mobile phone apps all need to be updated to reflect the changed operation. 

Parts 1 and 2 of the new standard for communications between content management systems and displays have been published.

https://www.rtig.org.uk/projects/CMS_PID_Interface

Following a workshop earlier in January this document has been produced to help understand how customer information systems can better be managed during the current driver shortage. 
This document identifies a number of actions that may help the industry longer term with managing high volumes of short notice changes and cancellations.