2. TransportAPI is the only UK provider of public transport information, journey
planning and transport social media updates through a scaled data-as-a-
service (DaaS) platform
Our platform is a based on a RESTful API and offers information from official
open data sources on Britain’s public transport:
• Future: timetables for passenger/freight services, journey plans by public
transport, cycle and car, passenger fares and service alterations
• Present: live departures for passenger/freight services, service running
dashboards, transport social media updates, route and stop maps
• Past: performance monitoring data, service archives, social media history
What we offer
3. Feed Source Footprint
Train fares (alpha) National Rail Great Britain
Train service live departures Network Rail Great Britain
Train service timetables Network Rail Great Britain
Tube service live departures Transport for London London
Tube service timetables Transport for London London
Rail coach timetables Traveline National Dataset Great Britain
National Express coach timetables/live National Coach Services DB Great Britain
TfL Bus timetables Transport for London London
TfL Bus live departures Transport for London London
Non-TfL Bus timetables Traveline National Dataset GB non-London
Non-TfL Bus live departures Traveline NextBuses GB non-London
Journey planning itineraries Traveline SouthEast Traveline SE (England S. of Humber)
TransportBuzz tweet mapping TransportAPI UK and Ireland
Performance indicators for tube/train TransportAPI London/GB
Car-based journey planning from
postcode to postcode
TransportAPI/ OpenStreetMap Great Britain
Cycle-based journey route planning
from postcode to postcode
TransportAPI/ CycleStreets United Kingdom
Key aggregated data sources
4. AIMES Grid
Projects
Memset
Production API
Rackspace
Dedicated
InnovateUK
Funded projects
iTRACS £52K
Fareviz £120K
TransportAPI.com
Production/staging
1000 developers
Wholesale users
TransportAPI
Enterprise
Future Cities Catapult
Bristol City Council
TransportAPI infrastructure
Open source technology stack:
Linux; Ruby-on-Rails; PostgeSQL; Apache
Open Transport Data formats
TransXchange; SIRI; ATCO CIF
16. On the way…
Platform
• Dedicated Enterprise instances forming TransportAPI data network
• Self-documenting endpoints using RAML
• Better API usability eg RESTful http response codes
Data
• Unkeyed free non-commercial data thru Future Cities Catapult datastore
• Extension of data to public road feeds incl. DATEX II & UTMC
• Rail fares endpoints
• Add value-added private data feeds eg National Express live coach
• AIS ferry data
Partnerships
• Transport, Digital and Future Cities Catapult partnerships
• Telegraph film at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub
• Developer engagement work