Opening up access to UK transport data

David Mountaindavid.mountain@transportapi.com

transportapi.com@transportapi

Who we are

• Placr Ltd: SME based in Shoreditch– Dave Mountain, Jonathan Raper, Harry

Wood, Emer Coleman and Tom Ward

• Transport API:– Open transport data service– First round funding in 2013

What we do

• API endpoints for timetabled and live for bus and rail data

• 370K stop/stations with 50Gb live data• Journey planning: public and private• JSON, XML, HTML formats• Aggregation and integration• API authentication and monitoring

(3Scale)

Open data

• Part of the Open Data Institute startup program

• Campaigning for the release of transport data

• Aim to be a one-stop shop for UK transport data

• Easier for developers to integrate transport data into apps

• Innovation

Who’s using it?

TFLOverground

CityMapper

• London’s most popular travel app

• TransportAPI supplying the back end for rail data

Heathrow (May 2014)

Travel portal developed with ELGIN

UK TravelOptions

• 3D perspective of OSM • Display/search POIs• Tap thru to transport

info• Tube performance

indicators• iOS / iPad

2013 growth

How to get itSign up for an account a transportapi.com

1000 hits per day free (sandbox)Then £1 for 2.5k – 10k hitsOr partner with us?

No reservation of downstream usage rights

wishlist

Performance

• Tube performance indicators• Real travel time through London bus networ

Dashboards

Transport Buzz

• Transport data is one side of the story

• But how do people experience this• TransportBuzz (beta): web app

developed to explore this• Stores and analyses transport related

tweets• About 5% of these are geolocated

We’re hiring

• Lots of ideas of what to do next• Looking for developers:– Ruby + server-side;–Web design + front-end;– Experience of transport indy

• Flexible: PT / FT; temp / perm

Talk to us!

Dave@davidmountain

Jonathan@madprof

Harry@harry_wood

Tom@themadwort

Emer@emercoleman

transportapi.com

@transportapi