Online TfL Bus Schedules

[snoggle]

At long last it seems TfL have launched an online bus schedule search facility. I've only looked at the 123 and it has the very latest schedule. It is possible some routes may not be in the system yet. Correction - looks like a lot of routes aren't in the system yet having done some random checking.

tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-schedules

Time to crash the TfL website.

[Nathan]

Oooh, this is very interesting. I bet they'll be someone out there checking the times religiously, then complaining to the driver when a bus is one min late

Having looked at the 172 schedule, I can see that the PDF includes the running numbers, as well as the number of trips per day too. It's also interesting to see that the 171 has separate M-T and F schedules as opposed to M-F

[snoggle]

Nov 18, 2015 19:11:13 GMT Nathan said:

Oooh, this is very interesting. I bet they'll be someone out there checking the times religiously, then complaining to the driver when a bus is one min late

You might say that ..... I couldn't possibly comment.

[ServerKing]

Nov 18, 2015 19:15:29 GMT snoggle said:

Nov 18, 2015 19:11:13 GMT Nathan said:

Oooh, this is very interesting. I bet they'll be someone out there checking the times religiously, then complaining to the driver when a bus is one min late

You might say that ..... I couldn't possibly comment.

Enough about the 192

Sadly, none of the Prefixed routes (i.e C2, E10) are up on the schedule yet, just regular route numbers like 243

[Alex]

Thank you so much for posting!!!! I've been waiting for these for so long, I'd given up that TfL were going to do it. Looks like my evening is sorted lol

[thesquirrels]

Various routes I've keyed in at random not throwing anything up yet e.g. 492, 493, 323.. lower numbers seem to be more or less fully present, though.

[Danny]

All routes can be accessed if you change the route number in the URL, such as s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bus.data.tfl.gov.uk/schedules/Schedule_E10-MF.pdf

[snoggle]

Nov 18, 2015 21:39:50 GMT Danny said:

All routes can be accessed if you change the route number in the URL, such as s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bus.data.tfl.gov.uk/schedules/Schedule_E10-MF.pdf

Thanks.

That's helpful but it does rather rely on you knowing what daily variants there are for any particular service. Let's hope TfL get the look up interface working properly if all the data is actually there!

[paulsw2]

Nov 18, 2015 19:11:13 GMT Nathan said:

Oooh, this is very interesting. I bet they'll be someone out there checking the times religiously, then complaining to the driver when a bus is one min late

Having looked at the 172 schedule, I can see that the PDF includes the running numbers, as well as the number of trips per day too. It's also interesting to see that the 171 has separate M-T and F schedules as opposed to M-F

That would be down to interworking with night bus

[schedcomp]

Nov 19, 2015 2:45:41 GMT paulsw2 said:

Nov 18, 2015 19:11:13 GMT Nathan said:

Oooh, this is very interesting. I bet they'll be someone out there checking the times religiously, then complaining to the driver when a bus is one min late

Having looked at the 172 schedule, I can see that the PDF includes the running numbers, as well as the number of trips per day too. It's also interesting to see that the 171 has separate M-T and F schedules as opposed to M-F

That would be down to interworking with night bus

Whilst this is probably correct, many operators give increased running times on Friday evening, after around 1900-2100 until end of service. I suspect this route is for both reasons.

[eggmiester]

Different Friday schedules are indeed normally due to the variations in night bus cross links.

[northken]

I like how how they've devised their own form of telling the time, with some buses arriving back at their garages at "25:17".

[VPL630]

Nov 20, 2015 17:59:12 GMT northken said:

I like how how they've devised their own form of telling the time, with some buses arriving back at their garages at "25:17".

It makes a lot of sense to us and operation people, it saves confusion etc

[schedcomp]

Nov 20, 2015 17:59:12 GMT northken said:

I like how how they've devised their own form of telling the time, with some buses arriving back at their garages at "25:17".

TfL system is to a 36 hour clock. There needs to be a simple way of differentiating between a bus leaving garage at 4am but returning at 2am the next morning. Night buses will thus include times at 2900. The N9 may push 3200.

[snoggle]

Nov 20, 2015 17:59:12 GMT northken said:

I like how how they've devised their own form of telling the time, with some buses arriving back at their garages at "25:17".

Pretty much standard practice on transport systems where an operational day can be longer than 24 hours. Years and years ago I was dealing with 26.5 hour days when creating data for LU's ticketing system.