TransportAPI for Bus Operators
Attract more customers with accurate information.
TransportAPI for Bus Operators
Reduce complaints and raise app ratings.
TransportAPI for Bus Operators
Fix data errors before they reach your customers.
Nationwide multimodal coverage
TransportAPI have blanket mainland GB coverage of all public transport modes with a comprehensive feature set, including timetables, RTI, live vehicle locations, places lookup, and journey planning
Best of breed data, merged with your single source of truth
TransportAPI pick the best tool for the job when it comes to data sources. We can customise our data loads to ingest your data on a frequency which suits you, giving you complete control of the public transport information in your customers' hands.
Up to date and high quality
We constantly update all our data sources to keep data fresh, so legacy timetables are never shown to end-users. Our automated loading processes generate sophisticated data quality reports, flagging issues and allowing us to address them before they make it to passenger-facing apps and services.
One backend to serve all your channels
As an aggregator serving machine-readable data we can disseminate the same information across your entire digital estate. Everything from your passenger apps, web services, PDF timetables, on street/on bus displays and audible services. It's the same data, and you have complete control.
trusted by
TransportAPI have been a long-term and dependable partner for us, handling millions of requests for public transport information per day from our top-rated FirstBus app and web services. Their industry expertise has been invaluable as they have worked closely alongside us to develop new ways of presenting information. This has helped ensure that our app remains one of the most innovative on the market.
TransportAPI have seamlessly combined our own data feeds with National sources to ensure our app has the most complete and consistent coverage. Throughout they have maintained a keen eye for accuracy, making sure that data quality never falls below what is expected by our end-users.
Learn moreOur partnership opens up some great opportunities to integrate our data with other transport feeds and provide customers with better journey planning information.
What can you do with it?
Timetables, RTI Predictions, and Buses On A Map
You can build apps and web services that show comprehensive bus stop timetables for all operators, for every single stop in the country. You can create service timetable views on your website as traditional PDF timetables, or more sophisticated features that allow your users to drill down into the detail they need. Show your users the routes that the buses follow, by integrating our detailed on-street geometry.
Beyond schedules, you can add real-time information from a range of configurable sources, to provide predictions of when the buses will actually arrive. If you integration our live vehicle movements, you can develop features that show the live bus location on a map and progress between stops.
You can acquire new users, and retain existing, by providing them with the best and most flexible source of bus service information.
Places lookup and Journey Planning
Add journey planning functionality to your digital services to ensure all the public transport information needs of your users are met, and they do not need other apps to figure out how to get from A to B by public transport.
Build on the TransportAPI Places service, which provides access to all GB mainland places behind a uniform API. This covers all bus, tram, train and tube access points, plus postcodes, streets, settlements and POIs. Places is a starting point for your bus stop and train station departure screens, and also for journey planning.
When you build on our journey planning service, your users can follow links to more information about the component parts of that journey, such as the bus services, timetables, and more dynamic information such as disruptions, and moving vehicles. You can develop apps that allow users to answer any questions they have about the alternative options in the plan.
How it works
We are the public transport data partner in your technology stack
We handle the data. We are the most comprehensive and accurate source, with a focus on data quality. This includes bus route geometry for the links between every pair of connected stops: we use the best available data sources, filling in with our own geometry where no published source exists.
We have the most feature-rich API, able to answer the most demanding questions, which is developer-friendly, remaining consistent to the same API design principles.
We have our core role, but collaborate closely with others in the stack to ensure we are all focussed on solving your problems. By getting involved at the design and planning stage, we can ensure that front-end developers downstream of us get access to exactly the right information in suitable formats. By reporting data quality issues to suppliers upstream of us, we ensure that the data in your digital estate stays up to date and accurate, and that problems are fixed before data gets pushed out to customer-facing systems.
All our services autoscale to handle whatever demand is thrown at them: they currently serve about a billion requests per month without breaking sweat.
Easy and scalable API
The RESTful JSON API is easy to consume and integrate into backend systems or web and mobile apps to power screens that automatically refresh every few seconds.
Our streaming Websocket JSON-RPC API is exactly what you need to send those push notifications to your customers phones and make those buses move on their screens.
Just ask one of the thousands of developers who have signed up for our managed services and integrated with their APIs.
You can leave us to deal with the scale. We handle hundreds of polling API queries and also deliver hundreds of streaming API payloads per second for over 25% of the UK transit apps by operator market share.
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TAPI Journey Planner
Multimodal journey planning for any use case.
Single API integration, choice from all the industry leading journey planners. Balance cost, speed and detail.
TAPI Bus Information
Attract more customers with accurate bus passenger information.
Get data errors fixed before your customers spot them and raise your app ratings.
Nationwide rail schedules and realtime information via API or GTFS.
TAPI Bus Performance
Analyse and improve the performance of your bus fleet. Traffic Commissioner performance reports made easy.
Use your own trusted data sources or power from BODS. Delivery at scale via an API.
TAPI Places
Help users find access points for public transport across Great Britain by using an API tailored for 🇬🇧 transport.
Seamless integration with 🇬🇧 transport datasets.