The Public Service Vehicles (Open Data) (England) Regulations 2020

Automatic vehicle location data

13.—(1) The operator of a registered relevant local service must, in relation to the operation of that service in the relevant area, provide the bus open data digital service internet site with automatic vehicle location data.

(2) A local transport authority that is also a franchising authority must provide the bus open data digital service internet site with automatic vehicle location data for any relevant local service which operates in the area to which the franchising scheme relates.

(3) The information provided under paragraph (1) or (2) must be updated no more frequently than every ten seconds and no less frequently than every thirty seconds.

(4) The requirement to provide information under paragraph (1) or (2) applies—

(a) in respect of a service in operation on and after 31st December 2020, from 7th January 2021;

(b) in respect of a service that is first provided on or after 1st January 2021, from the beginning of the day on which that service is first provided.

(5) In this regulation, “automatic vehicle location data” means data, in respect of any vehicle while it is being used to provide a relevant local service, that meets the requirements of the Vehicle Monitoring Service version of the Standard Interface for Real Time Information(1) and which comprises—

(a) information as soon as it becomes available about the location of the vehicle along a route;

(b) where available, the location of the vehicle in relation to a stopping place;

(c) the vehicle identifier;

(d) the name or number of the service;

(e) the time the vehicle started its journey; and

(f) the finishing point of the vehicle.

(1)

The Standard Interface for Real Time Information is a European technical standard for exchanging between different computer systems information about the planned, current or projected performance of public transport operations. The Vehicle Monitoring Service version allows for identification of the exact location of a vehicle along its route. Hard copies of the standard can be obtained free of charge from the Buses and Taxis Division, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR.