Traveline National Data Set

Introduction
Code of Practice
National Operator Codes
Services Organisations and Holidays
Interchange
Times and Routes
Issues found in testing
Keeping the data up to date

Introduction

Traveline, working with local authorities and DfT have made a number of datasets available as OpenData, including NPTDR. With the support of a number of major transport operators Traveline has also been assembling the Traveline regional timetable datasets into a regularly updated UK national dataset which is described here.

Code of Practice

- relating to the supply and use of Transport Data

Download the full Code of Practice - 51k word document

National Operator Codes

Download the National Operator Code Data Set - 1MB excel spreadsheet updated 16 January 2012

Serviced Organisaton and Holidays

Download the Serviced organisations and holiday tables - 3Mb zip file

Interchange

Users of the National Data Set when proposing interchange points should consider the physical proximity of the NaPTAN points involved. In some areas they may find that StopAreas have been set up and these indicate where interchange can take place.

The interchange.csv - 1k csv file file is set up ready to list specific interchanges, minimum times and interchange resources and any values on this list should be used for interchange at the points they relate to. Elsewhere those using the dataset are expected to apply suitable default values or user set values values to interchanges.

The addition or deletion of any record in the interchanges.csv file shall be the decision of the transport authorities in whose area the interchange occurs.

The transfer points can be NaPTAN points or StopAreas and the interchange can be at or between points as follows:

NaPTAN point to another NaTPAN point
StopArea to another StopArea
NaPTAN point to a StopArea
StopArea to a NaPTAN point
NaPTAN point to the same NaPTAN point - interchange at a specific stop, Bay or platform
StopArea to the same StopArea - interchange between any points within a StopArea

only the Transfer from, Transfer to and Wait fields re mandatory. All other fields are optional and should be left blank if not required.

The interchange.htm file is a temporary arrangement and may in due course be replaced by data prepared according to the IFOPT standard.

Times and Routes

These are held in TXC2 format and distributed in a zip folder of about 500Mb. This is not yet available to be used in public facing services but is available to anyone who can help test the data and provide feedback. If you are interested in this please and provide brief details of the testing you might be able to do.

During the testing phase there are a number of cost and technical issues which means, each region is supplying data as follows:

Region	Completeness	Abbr	Updating during testing phase
Scotland	Complete	S	weekly
North East England	partial	NE	occasional
North West England	complete	NW	weekly
Yorkshire	partial	Y	weekly
Wales / Cymru	complete	W	weekly
West Midlands	complete	WM	occasional
East Midlands	complete	EM	weekly
East Anglia	complete	EA	weekly
South West	complete	SW	weekly
South East England	complete	SE	weekly
London	complete	L	opendata
Northern Ireland	not included
Isle of Man	not included
Jersey	not included
Guernsey	not included

Issues found in testing

The National Data Set Issues list includes a discussion of the issues that have been raised and the solutions arrived at. If you could help edit the wiki please for access.

Procurement: We are in a tendering process to appoint an organisation to help manage the National Data Set.

Abbr. The letter code abbreviations are listed in the National Gazetteer dataset