Are you ready for the move to Electronic Bus Service Registration (EBSR)? That’s the question that scheduling software specialist Ominbus is asking operators.
One of the main aspects of the Bus Services Act is the requirement for operators to provide data on timetables, fares and real time information as open data, including a move to EBSR.
“We are waiting for secondary legislation from the Department for Transport to pave the way,” says Michael Meilton of Omnibus, ”but this has been delayed whilst the Mayoral Powers aspects of the Act are finalised and implemented. EBSR will however become a reality at some point soon and operators need to take steps to be ready.”
Omnibus has developed a number of tools to help operators to manage data and use it to improve efficiencies and to meet new regulations.
“Another area where operators and local authorities struggle is in having tools to allow them to utilise the data fully.
“We have developed a number of tools to splice data to extract what it is the user really wants to see. Using the Open Data from Traveline, for example, we supply tools to extract this by operator, local authority area and a host of other options,” adds Mr Meilton.
