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The Department for Transport (DfT) is running ‘pioneer project’ to encourage take-up of its Bus Open Data Service (BODS).
It has entered a collaboration with Israeli based mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) specialist Moovit to standardise the data and provide guidance on its use by bus operators around the country.
The project involves standardising and openly publishing bus operator data to support passengers in planning their journeys.
A spokesperson for Moovit said there will be three main elements to its work: helping the DfT to make the data available for MaaS platforms; making real time data on factors such as traffic incidents and service alerts usable for different systems; and encouraging bus operators to integrate with its own app.