National Public Transport Data Repository (NPTDR)

how can I open these data?Use which software?Sorry,It may looks naive to ask this kind of question. 

The 2010 (CIF) data sets appear not to have the Air Services which were supplied in the 2009 set and I can find no commentary on why this should be the case.

Can anyone offer an explanation as to why this data has been excluded?

I note that the NAPTDR data goes back to 2004, but only the '09 and '10 data has been uploaded.  Where is it possible to get the previous years data sets?

This is more for general information than anythng else: The availability of this data has now made it possible for us to build detailed Public Transport networks suitable for transport modelling, whereas previously this was a very difficult process.We can now take the data for any administrative area and by mode, build either a network which is constructed on a 'stop-to-stop basis', or more interestingly, map it onto an underlying digital (road) network.For modelling purposes, filters are applied to include only those services which run specified days of the week and for specified time periods. Because of' the way the data has been coded in the CIF files, it is necessary to 'collapse' route instances (that is: where individual services run at specific times) into a 'common' route, calculating a frequency for the user defined time periods.For transport modellers this is now a big step forward as building such networks will be quicker, cheaper and more efficient than before. Well done on making this data available! Previously innovation was being 'stifled'The work has been done using OmniTRANS transport planning software, which means that a licence fee would be required to access the tools. I read in one of the previous comments that it would be nice for such software to be free as well as the data. All I can say to that is that software developers need to eat!

I am informed - "The NPTDR data repository currently only includes the cif files. Thales are continuing to produce the TXC files, which should be available in early March. Once all of this is complete, it will then be published on data.gov.uk."

Is the October 10 NPTDR dataset going to be released soon?

I'm trying to look at the frquencies of services, for example in cambrideshire (area 050) on the bus service 13. There should be bus that run at certain times past the hour but on the database the service 13 has 6 journeyPatterns which each have 1 or 2 Vehicle journeys. None of the vehicle journeys have a frequency (as describe here http://www.dft.gov.uk/transxchange/schema/2.1/examples/linear/index.htm). I know for fact that there are more journeys than the few shown, is the frequency element missing or am i misinterpreting this?

thanks

Its great that this very comprehensive dataset is now available free. However, making use of this resource is still very hard. When can we see also access to low-cost (free?) tools to make use of this data to model for example public transport travel times? The only software I have found that can process the NPDTR is the Accession GIS, which apparently was commissioned by the DFT, but is licensed at £3150 !

It looks incomplete to me.  Aber Station (GrsRef ABE) doesn't seem to be listed.

I couldn't find Birmingham Moor Street either!

Please let me know if I'm missing something obvious.

-- Rob

This is great, used to cost us £7500 for the full UK dataset for use in Accession, though now its free it has massively lowered the cost of producing maps.  Also great to see it still uses the Atco codes.

It would however be even better to force all public transport organisations to offer their latest timetables for public consumption in a common format - and the Google Transport format leaps to mind - so that developers can produce sites handling the scheduling of multiple forms of transportation - so both the bus to the railway station and then the train to the next city as it were...

It always amazes me that many operators regard their operating schedule as commercially sensitive information - I've never seen a justification for this.

Very useful things to release for public use. Would be more useful to developers if you created an API. Also, try making each of the different routes/files available independently, 115MB is a big file.