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April 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Want to know the real-world CO₂ emissions of new passenger cars and vans? 🚗 🚐

Our interactive viewer gives you direct access to the latest data.

Check it out: climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/trans...

#CO2Emissions #PassengerCars #Vans #TransportData #SustainableMobility
July 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Output Area counts for licensed vehicles in UK, as at the end of 2024 owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ve... from DfT/DVLA via my #FOI

This is the most geographically detailed dataset available for mapping UK vehicles. Counts are by body type, keepership, and licence status.

#transportdata #opendata 🚗🚚🛵
July 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Matching STATS19 collision data to a road network: feasibility www.gov.uk/government/s... report from DfT's statistics team

Road Safety Data www.gov.uk/government/s...

DfT's collision data is open … but OS NGD RoadLink isn't

#roadsafety #transportdata #opendata #datapolicy
OS NGD RoadLink was selected for the feasibility study because DfT can access it through the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, it provides detailed national road geometry and attributes, and it is related to the mapping used in the CRASH system used by many police forces to provide STATS19 data to DfT. In future, the road safety statistics team will agree the appropriate network product and version with the DfT roads geography team, taking account of the networks already used across road statistics, update timing, historic consistency and production support. Because OS NGD is not an open dataset, the Department will confirm with OS which derived attributes, identifiers and aggregate outputs, if any, could be published or shared under licence. This will be explored further as the work progresses.
September 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Network Model Public View opendata.nationalhighways.co.uk/maps/4b64217... new multilayered dataset from National Highways (England)

(In this initial release, speed limit and smart motorway information has been removed pending data validation.)

#geospatial #transportdata #opendata
The Network Model digitally represents England's Strategic Road Network. The model contains critical information about our road's location, names, lanes and widths. The Network Model was derived from Ordnance Survey (OS) Highways data and enriched with internal datasets. It reflects National Highways roads that are open for traffic and have been validated against our Operational Highway Boundary (RedLine).
February 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
transittwin.bsky.social
#Transport data professionals and decision-makers are being invited to join a high-level event in London to explore the critical role of #ontologies in digitally twinning and decarbonising the UK’s transport system.

More here: tinyurl.com/2n5k6n65

#TransportData #Ontologies #DataSharing
Ontologies are critical for transport systems to interoperate and speak to each other. TransiT co-investigator Paul Harvey presenting at an event. Cars, buses and trams on Leith Walk in Edinburgh. Photo: Ben Glasgow Photography
July 30, 2026 at 8:46 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Anonymised MOT tests and results www.data.gov.uk/dataset/c63f... annual release of a big useful dataset from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (Great Britain)

Data for earlier years from DfT www.data.gov.uk/dataset/e393...

#transportdata #opendata
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
transittwin.bsky.social
Our scientists David Flynn from University of Glasgow and Clive Roberts from Durham University are taking part in this week’s Connected Places Summit 2026, hosted by Connected Places Catapult

More here: tinyurl.com/saznbs84

#CPSummit26 #TransportData #ZeroEmission @glasgow.ac.uk @durham.ac.uk
#cpsummit26 #transportdata #zeroemission #freight #netzero #transport #decarbonisation #digitaltwin #intelligenttransport #smartcities #logistics #transportinnovation #construction #localgrowth #data…...
Two of our TransiT scientists will join a high-profile industry panel this week at the flagship 2026 Connected Places Summit in London. Professor David Flynn from the University of Glasgow and Profes...
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March 18, 2026 at 10:44 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Estimates of station usage dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u... annual release of station-level passenger rail data from UK regulator @railandroad.bsky.social

Still no licensing info afaics but ORR advised me in 2020 that OGL applied to the tables

#raildata #transportdata #opendata 🚆
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
geobase.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/5CJkQ... New blueprint coming this week!
Stunning Analysis and visualization of taxi trips in the City of Porto!

#Geospatial
#OpenSource
#Serverless
#DataVisualization
#SmartCities
Understanding Taxi Traffic in the City #UrbanTransport #DataVisualization #GeoSpatial #TransportData
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September 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Elizabeth line dominates Great Britain's top 10 stations www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/... from the Office of Rail and Road

Estimates of station usage: April 2023 to March 2024 dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...

#raildata #transportdata #opendata 🚆
November 21, 2024 at 2:54 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Open rail data could unlock £500 million annual revenue boost www.railmagazine.com/news/open-ra... (Britain)

Independent Rail Retailers report:

More Passengers, More Revenue independentrailretailers.co.uk/ads/

RARS www.raildeliverygroup.com/rars2-member...

#raildata #transportdata #opendata
Under the proposed ADS model, the industry would transition to a decentralised open-data framework similar to Transport for London's network. This would see retailers process complex search queries locally allowing apps and websites to use flexible airline-style tools like rolling price calendars, true price comparison services, and flexible destination searches. Under the plans proposed in the report, the central RARS infrastructure would be preserved solely to validate and finalise transactions at the point of sale. Crucially, the report argues, the shift would relieve the processing burden on the central system and potentially save money in taxpayer subsidies.
July 10, 2026 at 7:34 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Scottish bus open data www.transport.gov.scot/consultation... consultation from Transport Scotland

Section 40 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/...

#busopendata #transportdata #opendata 🚌
In 2019 the Scottish Government brought in new primary legislation for transport (the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019), which included new provisions to better define bus open data, and to require it be shared for the new purpose of directly informing passengers (or potential passengers) about services. We believe that bus open data is essential to make travel on public transport more accessible, and to increase patronage of public transport in Scotland. We intend to introduce new supporting legislation, known as Regulations (or 'Secondary Legislation') which define what specific information is required to be published, when, and in what format. This will allow for consistency across Scotland and will help us align with changes already underway in the wider UK.
March 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Supplier questionnaire – opening stage for re-procurement of technical delivery of #BusOpenData Service (BODS) and Analyse Bus Open Data Service (ABODS), three-year £30 million contract www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/744e8... from UK Dept for Transport

#transportdata #opendata #govtech
June 20, 2024 at 6:31 PM
transittwin.bsky.social
TransiT, the UK’s national Digital Twinning Hub for #Decarbonising #Transport, has appointed a new Head of Data to help its research teams manage growing volumes of transport data

More here: tinyurl.com/2eb3tk8u

#TransportData #BigData #NetZero
Barbara Alvarez Solanilla, Head of Data at TransiT. Cars, buses and trams in Edinburgh. Photo by Ben Glasgow Photography.
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Output Area counts for licensed vehicles in the UK, end of 2023 www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ve... from DfT/DVLA via #FOI

This is the most geographically detailed dataset available for mapping UK vehicles. Counts are by body type, keepership, and licence status.

#transportdata #opendata 🚗🚚🛵
May 24, 2024 at 9:33 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Did we know about this? There's a DfT Transport Statistics Geography Portal geoportal.dft.gov.uk from DfT Mapping (UK)

Launched in May www.gov.uk/government/s...

#transportdata #geospatial #opendata
The Department for Transport produces and publishes a range of Transport Statistics with a spatial component. This new provision supports the download of the datasets in geospatial formats. This initial release covers the existing published official statistics, by the Department for Transport, in a geographical format for Road Casualties, Bus Passenger Journeys, Search and Rescue Helicopter Taskings, Licensed Plug-In Vehicles, and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure. GIS datasets are updated once the statistical datasets they are derived from have been officially published.
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Bus Services Act 2025: improving information about local services www.gov.uk/government/c... consultation from the UK Department for Transport (DfT) on plans for local bus service information (England)

#busopendata #transportdata #opendata #govtech 🚌
We envisage making full digitisation possible through the creation of a new registration, variation and cancellation information input system, and a publicly available database. The information input system will enable operators and LTAs to provide information to DfT about their bus services. We aim to link the system with BODS so that operators can complete BODS data input and registration information input in one centralised location (where applicable). Alongside this, we aim to develop a public-facing database, so that passengers can access all bus service information in one centralised location. We currently anticipate that both the information provision system and the public-facing database will be built and owned by DfT. As well as facilitating the build of the system and database, we expect DfT will take ownership of hosting and maintaining them both on GOV.UK.
July 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
New #opendata:

Output Area counts for licensed vehicles in the UK at the end of 2025, released by DfT following FOI request www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ve...

This is the most granular dataset available to the public for mapping and analysis of where vehicles are registered

#FOI #transportdata
The vehicle counts are broken down by body type, keepership, and licence status. The data is compatible with DfT's published table df_VEH0125, which is at LSOA level. However, this OA dataset is not an official statistical output. Following from an ICO decision in 2022, there is no suppression of small numbers in the dataset. The data is in the following format: [Screenshot of six rows of sample data with column headings: OA21, BodyType, Keepership, LicenceStatus, VehicleCount]
May 18, 2026 at 8:12 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Road safety set to be improved by cross-department data sharing pilot www.racfoundation.org/media-centre... from RAC Foundation (UK)

Joint statement: Unlocking the Power of Linked Road Safety and Health Data www.racfoundation.org/wp-content/u...

#roadsafety #publichealth #transportdata #linkeddata
Current data used to construct national statistics on road casualties provide valuable insights into the scale and severity of road traffic injuries. STATS19 captures key details from police work to reveal the causes of road crashes while NHS records are essential for understanding the nature of injuries and their implications for the health service. But the absence of a linked dataset capable of combining these sources limits our ability to conduct more comprehensive severity assessments, use cutting-edge analytics and AI for predictive risk modelling, devise and implement better targeted interventions, and so develop evidence-based initiatives because it is impossible to see the complete picture from causation through to consequence.
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Supplier opportunity – Advice on Staffing and Technical Needs for a New Data Service www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/04777... tender notice from Transport Focus (£20,000 + VAT)

#busopendata #opendata #transportdata #govtech 🚌
Transport Focus intends to establish a new internal function to gather, manage, and use transport data, including but not limited to large open data feeds such as the Bus Open Data Service (BODS) and from Network Rail, as well as links to other organisations data feeds. This function will support internal analysis, reporting, and insight generation, for example the development of reporting dashboards. The organisation requires external consultancy to provide on the staffing and technical capabilities needed to set up and operate this service. The consultancy will not be required to design policy, carry out user research, or implement systems.
August 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
The UK's Department for Transport has awarded a £25 million contract to Kainos for services to support "publication, management, and dissemination of open data related to bus services across the UK" www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/5de91...

#govtech #busopendata #opendata #transportdata
The Department for Transport seeks to procure robust, scalable, and reliable BODS/ABODS services. These services will support the publication, management, and dissemination of open data related to bus services across the UK. BODS and ABODS will deliver in alignment with the DfT's strategic direction and priority outcomes, in particular; 1) Grow the economy by investing in enhancing the transport network; 2) Improve transport for users; and 5) Be an excellent department. Theses services will also delivery in alignment with legislative requirements, the National Bus Strategy and the National Data Strategy.
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
UK rail minister is "keen on open data" hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-0... (Railways Bill debate from last week)

What a nerd

#raildata #transportdata #opendata
The noble Lord, Lord Moylan, is right: I am keen on open data. It is important that GBR will share open data. As the noble Lord, Lord Dixon of Jericho, said, open data is vital. I am very sympathetic to the development of alternative websites, but it is equally important that we rationalise the 14 that we already have, which either are in or will come into public ownership. If noble Lords listened to the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, they will have heard about the inconsistency in approaches to ticketing, particularly for people who need help and are disabled. That is one of the things that we propose to remedy.
July 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
New #opendata release from Transport for London: BUSTO dataset of bus boardings, alightings and loadings, published annually blog.tfl.gov.uk/2024/08/13/d... blog post + data crowding.data.tfl.gov.uk (scroll down)

#transportdata #busopendata
Transport for London produces the BUSTO dataset each year to provide an understanding of customer usage and travel patterns on its bus network. This detailed dataset is the best available estimate of bus boardings, alightings and loadings on a typical day. TfL uses this dataset to assess bus service provision, demand profiles and customer experience, as well as inform service planning and performance measurement. BUSTO is based on observed passenger data from autumn each year, which is a typical period within the busiest time of year on London’s public transport networks. None of the values is a count of individual passengers on any particular day; rather they are averages over the period in question. The figures are presented to high resolution (i.e., each bus stop for each 15 minute period in each day type). …
August 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Bulk datasets from the UK's Department for Transport have now been updated to the end of 2023:

Road Safety Data www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7a... (Great Britain)

#roadsafety #transportdata #opendata
The latest final 2023 data published 26 September 2024. Data included These files provide detailed road safety data about the circumstances of personal injury road collisions in Great Britain from 1979, the types of vehicles involved and the consequential casualties. The statistics relate only to personal injury collisions on public roads that are reported to the police, and subsequently recorded, using the STATS19 collision reporting form.
September 28, 2024 at 5:39 PM