Facts and figures

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Transport Direct has been designed to handle:

  • 50 million visits to the portal each year
  • 700,000 ticketing requests per year
  • 10 million web page updates each week
  • 1 million journeys planned each week

 

Transport Direct brings together travel information from over 40 different sources each week in one place and includes travel information on:

  • Over 330,000 bus stops (this number is regularly increasing as new bus stops are added to the database)
  • 2500 train stations
  • 3 million nodes contained in the road data
  • 27 million addresses

 

The technology behind Transport Direct

  • 200 – 300 MB of rail data
  • 300 GB map data
  • 140 MB air data
  • 35 servers host all of the content available via Transport Direct

 

Hundreds of internet hyperlinks already point to Transport Direct, on websites belonging to such organisations as:

  • BBC
  • Visit Britain
  • Wembley Stadium
  • Find A Property
  • Sadler's Wells theatre
  • GNER