The DfT has issued an update on its Bus Open Data plans, which are intended to bring the levels of passenger information available for buses across England to a standard ‘as good as or better’ than what is currently offered in London.
As part of the project, the team behind the Bus Open Data project has been working on a tool to improve the quality of national public transport access nodes (NaPTAN) data – which is described as being ‘critical’ to the project’s success.
NaPTAN quality checking software produced by Passenger and ITO World estimates a 4% error rate for the current data, which the Open Data project team hope to solve with their new tool.
The tool will allow users to make NaPTAN changes through a ‘single one-off update’ via a spreadsheet.
Early testing of the tool, conducted with Nottinghamshire County Council, was successful. The focus now is on testing with other local transport authorities to establish whether the spreadsheet-based approach mentioned above will work effectively.
The team has also been working on improving the quality of data published through the Bus Open Data Digital Service, which will provide two levels of checks to ensure the accuracy of the data.
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