Data Mill North

Today's guest blog is an update regarding our recent Local Government Association sponsored Innovation Lab across the North of England. Lee Emery from Stockport talks about the proposal chosen to be developed further below.

With a working title of #TravelHack2 – Fare Enough, the event is focused on the presentation of fare information to customers, expanding on the ideas and explorations from #TravelHack1. Bus fares have been a thorny issue for some time, with competing operators having vastly different pricing structures and ticket types. This is confusing enough for operators and service providers, let alone customers. There is no currently no national data standard for fares in the UK. The Bus Services Act should help with this, but in the meantime, TfN have a vision to create a fares dataset for the North. This can then be used by local authorities, transport operators, app developers and anyone else that wants to present fare information to customers.

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