TransportAPI for Local Authorities
Access GB's most comprehensive source of public transport information.
TransportAPI for Local Authorities
Ensure passengers see your source of truth, across all your channels.
TransportAPI for Local Authorities
Identify locations that need bus priority project, and measure the improvement they bring.
Rich public transport information
TransportAPI have complete mainland GB coverage of public transport data, across all modes. We have a comprehensive feature set including schedules, RTI predictions, route geometry, live vehicle locations, journey planning, and places. The best one-stop shop to meet all your transport information requirements.
The data quality experts
With every data load, TransportAPI generate data quality reports flagging potential issues, from missing services to stale data. We work with upstream partners to fix issues at source and act collaboratively to detect and fix problems before they make it as far as the end user.
Bus Performance Metrics
TransportAPI have the tools you need to identify the pinchpoints in your bus network that will benefit from bus priority projects. Retrieve and analyse historic data to measure the improvement on the network before and after the scheme was introduced.
Encourage a shift to greener modes
Put information in the hands of the passengers across your region to give them the confidence to leave the car at home and take the bus or train instead. Reliable information is key to building trust, and achieving a permanent shift from private car, to green public transport modes.
trusted by
The partnership we have with Transport API has been integral to the continued success of our online journey planner. They have been a vital partner in getting the journey planner feed onto our TSY app, which has been very well received since the new update, and they have gone above and beyond to help us deliver this. This partnership is providing the South Yorkshire public with the very highest standard of journey planning and accurate information at a time where there is a higher expectation from members of the public and passengers here in South Yorkshire.
Working with Transport API has enabled us to perform analytics and insights on a scale that we have never done before and at greater detail. They were receptive to our requests to make significant changes and kept in regular communication with detailed follow up documentation. It was good to see that they were willing to take on our objectives as their own and develop a solution that met our needs.
What can you do with it?
Build your transport apps and services on a single source of truth
Does the end-user complaint "Why is the information different?" sound familiar? Using different organisations to power different public-facing passenger information services can lead to frustration when people see different results on different screens.
When you build your apps and services on a common single source of truth, you take full control of your public transport information, across schedules, real time information, disruptions and journey planners. Using TransportAPI as a common backend gives you consistent information across all your dissemination channels: apps, web services, on street displays etc.
Improve your network with bus priority schemes
You need to make informed decisions about what bus prioritisation schemes to implement, in which locations. When you can identify the current pinchpoints of your network - where and when services move slowly and experience lateness - you have the evidence you need to select the schemes that will have maximum impact.
Once a scheme has been implemented, you can compare before and after performance, demonstrating the benefits that the scheme brought to passengers. This is critical evidence for justifying the cost of the scheme, and getting support to repeat the success elsewhere.
When you use TAPI Bus Performance, you can analyse different dimensions of performance, including punctuality, traversal times, dwell times, and reliability. You can apply those dimensions to distinct parts of your bus network, whether that is individual stops and edges, corridors, or entire services and operators. With this insight, you can get answers to the very specific questions you have about network performance.
How it works
An active backend partner for best of breed public transport information services
We have our role in the stack, taking care of the data and handling requests at scale. But we're not afraid to play out of position and work with front-end partners to solve problems collaboratively. If the solution doesn't exist yet, we'll work together to build it.
We work with you to understand the problem you need to solve, workshop the pros and cons of alternative solutions to figure out the best way forward, and iterate on our product suite to ensure those problems get solved.
By collaborating with data suppliers upstream of us, and front-end developers downstream, together we ensure the whole problem gets solved.
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 Rail Information
Attract more customers with accurate rail passenger information.
Nationwide rail schedules and realtime information via API or GTFS.
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.