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date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Travel Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to provide more live information to bus users; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	259268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is currently in the process of building the Bus Open Data Digital Service. The Digital Service will enable bus operators to publish their data so that it can subsequently be used by application developers to create products to improve journey planning for bus passengers across England.</p><p>Live information is in scope to be included in the digital service. Alongside routes, timetable, and fares data, bus operators will be legally required to provide Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) data to the Bus Open Data Digital Service. Application Developers will be able to access this data to build applications, products and services for end users or passengers.</p><p>The provision of AVL data, which will be a legal requirement for operators by January 2021, will be an important step towards transforming journey planning for bus users through the use of live information.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 11/06/2019 12:27:10 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1129103

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date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to improve the accessibility of public transport for disabled passengers.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	259270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring disabled people, including those with less visible disabilities such as autism, have the same access to transport and opportunities to travel as everyone else.</p><p>In July 2018 the Department published the Inclusive Transport Strategy. Its ambition is to create a transport system that provides equal access for disabled people by 2030, and to enable disabled people to travel confidently, easily and without extra cost.</p><p>The Department is making good progress delivering the many commitments set out in the Strategy, and will be reporting to Parliament on this in the summer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 11/06/2019 10:00:48 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight