Standards overview

One of the key activities for the Transport Direct team is to engage with relevant parties to set standards for the way in which data can be exchanged between interested parties - particularly, but not exclusively, to meet the needs of the Transport Direct service itself.  This is work that is also of wider interest both within Europe and Internationally.

Transport Direct is seeking to ensure that work in the UK complies with or even leads the emerging relevant standards. There are close relationships between each of these initiatives that will improve significantly the quality and consistency of information available about bus and other public transport services - to the benefit of operators and the providers of information services such as traveline, as well as for Transport Direct itself.
A catalogue of standards and standards-like initiatives relevant to Transport Direct and an analysis of the areas in which standards are inadequate to support the successful development of Transport Direct was prepared by Curtis and Cartwright Consulting Limited (now Centaur Consulting), with the independent assistance of Peter Warman, in 2001. This work is being updated and extended in 2007.

Standards Catalogue and Future Developments (PDF, 930kb)

Transport Direct commissioned a small study to review the draft CEN standard for the provision of Public Transport Information using TPEG: Public Transport Information via TPEG - CEN Standard Review (PDF, 202kb)