Technical Documents

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. 

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.

This advice deals with how to prepare data for the BODS service to ensure that it is correct for the The Coronation of The King and The Queen Consort holiday period.

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the digital provision of priority to public transport at signalised junctions. 

Existing work from RTIG: specifically, the documents T008 andT031, provide the specification and methodology for the transmission of data from public service vehicles, such as buses and trams, to traffic signals. These provide technical frameworks to provide priority for public transport vehicles at signalised junctions in an interoperable manner.

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the digital provision of priority to public transport at signalised junctions. 

Existing work from RTIG: specifically, the documents T008 andT031, provide the specification and methodology for the transmission of data from public service vehicles, such as buses and trams, to traffic signals. These provide technical frameworks to provide priority for public transport vehicles at signalised junctions in an interoperable manner.

This report specifically addresses one key customer challenge - the presentation of information about a journey for which a bus then does not appear at the customer location, often referred to as ghost buses.

It is an extract from the document RTIGT041 Accuracy and Quality of real Time Predictions and provides guidance on the causes of Ghost Buses.

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.

There are a bewildering range of displays on offer from suppliers - from LED to TFT, powered by mains, battery and solar. With the climate emergency and environmental concerns high in people’s minds, the impact of our choices of technology needs to be considered more than ever.

Purchasing and environmental teams are increasingly expecting questions to be asked whenever equipment is purchased.

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.

This advice deals with how to prepare data for the BODS service to ensure that it is correct for the Platinum Jubilee holiday period.

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.