Regulation 4 Manner and form of provision of route, operator, stopping place and timetable information
The information provided to the Secretary of State under regulation 3 must—
be provided electronically to the bus open data digital service internet site; and
be provided—
in the case of an operator that provides, or an applicant that is to provide, no more than forty relevant local services in the relevant area, by means of—
a link to the operator’s or applicant’s chosen website, being a link which must lead directly to the information in the form of a file in TransXChange standard format for the relevant local service, or
a file in TransXChange standard format for the relevant local service; or
in the case of any other operator or applicant or a local transport authority, by means of a link to the operator’s, applicant’s or, as the case may be, local transport authority’s chosen website, being a link which must lead directly to the information in the form of a file in TransXChange standard format for the relevant local service.
Where information provided to the Secretary of State under regulation 3 is provided in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) by means of a link to its chosen website, the operator, applicant or, as the case may be, local transport authority must ensure that the link continues to work for as long as the obligation to provide the information under regulation 3 applies.
In these Regulations “TransXChange standard format” means the United Kingdom transport industry standard format for publishing route and timetable informationf1.
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
-
The TransXChange standard is owned by the Secretary of State for Transport. It is currently used primarily for bus service registration and creation of journey planning information. Electronic copies of the standard can be found free of charge at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transxchange-downloads-and-schema. Hard copies of the standard can be obtained free of charge from the Buses and Taxis Division, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR.