Passengers are set to miss out on planned smart payment cards for travelling on trains and buses in Cumbria. Cards similar to the popular Oyster – which can be used while travelling in London and allow passengers to make a single contactless payment for journeys – had been mooted for the county and across the north of England. Transport for the North had hoped to see the technology rolled out but, at a TfN board meeting on Thursday, it was revealed that the Integrated and Smart Travel (IST) programme has now been scrapped due to funding cuts. Regional leaders at the meeting said: “ Levelling up as an idea is in disarray after the Department for Transport announced plans to cut funding to the integrated smart travel programme as part of a 40 per cent cost-cutting exercise.”
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Council leaders have reluctantly agreed to shut down a £150m project aimed at encouraging more people to switch to public transport across the North.
New open data tool to put information about bus fares at passengers’ fingertips Date published: 14 December 2020
Transport for the North’s Integrated and Smart Travel Director, Jeremy Acklam
A new open data tool to put information about bus fares at passengers’ fingertips has been launched by Transport for the North.
The ‘Create Fares Data Service’ will help bus operators across the country more easily publish fares online and in journey planning apps.
By unlocking fares data, the ultimate aim of the initiative is to provide passengers across the North and nationwide with better access to information about how much their next bus journey will cost.
Transport for the North (TfN) has developed a service to enable bus operators to publish fares in a standardised data format.
Named the Create Fares Data Service, it will initially be available for bus services in the TfN region but is to be handed to the DfT to develop as a national service.
It is intended to enable the operators to publish fares online and in journey planning apps, to help app developers use the data in other services.
The tool has been developed in partnership with the Department for Transport (DfT) and Traveline – a partnership of transport companies, local authorities and passenger groups – as part of TfN’s Integrated and Smart Travel programme.