Transport Timetables / 2013 39% open (avg.)

See also the local public transport data from the Helsingi region at http://dev.hsl.fi/

Generally public transport in the UK is run by private companies, with some government or municipality regulation. Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) national passenger rail timetable information is available on http://data.atoc.org/rail-industry-data and updated weekly; registration is required but free, and once registered the data can be downloaded in bulk under CC-BY UK ported (checked 20 Oct 2013). Fares data is available from the same source under the same licence. Daily schedules of all trains and real-time running information (down to individual signalling events) is available on https://datafeeds.networkrail.co.uk under a licence based on UK OGL v1. There is a community working on the open rail data and helping to make it easier to use with documentation: http://nrodwiki.rockshore.net/ List of Open Data Releases: http://nrodwiki.rockshore.net/index.php/OpenDataReleases Public transport timetables for bus, light rail, tram and ferry services in Great Britain (but not national rail or coach services) is at http://data.gov.uk/dataset/traveline-national-dataset; this dataset is updated weekly, can be downloaded in bulk and is licensed under the UK OGL v2. An open data source for (privately operated) national coach services or for rail and bus services in the devolved province of Northern Ireland is not known.

The abovementioned url refers to the data API documentation. The following url refers to the transport data being opened and its license http://labs.trafikanten.no/aapne-data.aspx

The data available is not complete, only Transilien, Intercités and TER lines are provided and not the main fast TGV lines. Also the licence under which it is released is an internal rewriting of the french ODbL with modifications that make it unsure whether it is actually OpenDefinition compliant.

Revision: the data are updated on a weekly basis for Transilien and every two months for TER and Intercités. So the data is provided on a timely and up to date basis.

Available in GTFS format as open data.

Transportation data is available from the US Department of Transportation at http://www.data.gov/list/agency/35/* and more at the Data.gov Safety community at http://safety.data.gov. This includes transportation venues, locations, safety records, on-time arrivals, etc. http://data.gov However this question is about national bus and train timetables which are harder to find. There is also a question as to whether in the US national bus and train are in fact government or privately run.

The Israeli Ministry of Transport issues real-time and static information - GPS locations of vehicles, time tables, routes, etc. The website and the information it contains is the property of the Israeli government, and the Ministry of Transport.

Currently data is accessible only after registration. Data is currently free of charge, but data holder reserves right to charge in future. It is a set of datasets...

http://www.autogara.md/orar/ http://www.railway.md/ro/schedule/

MACHINE READABLE: YES, the files are CSV, which means comma-separated values in text format AVAILABLE IN BULK: NO - Dublinked Irish Rail data seems to be Greater Dublin only, accurate for Jan 2013. OPENLY LICENSED: Based on our interpretations of Terms and Conditions, we believe the license to be 'CLOSED' (http://www.transportforireland.ie/terms-conditions/)

More timetables at http://www.moviatrafik.dk/dinrejse/koreplaner/Pages/Koreplaner.aspx Timetables in pdf: http://www.dsb.dk/find-og-kob/indland/koreplaner/?station=1samlet The Terms of Use at http://labs.rejseplanen.dk/labs/data_brug/retningslinijer_for_databrug/ make clear that the Travel Plan data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0 license and that the data cannot be changed. This is not an Open Licence under the Open Definition. Thanks to Andrew Stott for license correction

Requested CSV or XLS data from public transit director but (apparently) a legacy system without export option, a significant internal IT department fee to scope and/or export any data from any system and an ongoing bus drivers strike dominates management time. I have handcoded most routes into GTFS from printed timetables to reuse with next bus movile apps, Mapumental, etc. via openmindedly.

There are several time tables and web sites available. For long-distance buses in Slovenia, there's a from-to query interface at http://www.ap-ljubljana.si/ . Timetables for railways are available at Slovenian Railways home page, http://www.slo-zeleznice.si/sl/potniki/slovenija/vozni-redi - available are both as a from-to query and based on route ("Vozni redi po relacijah"). There's also an XML dump of bus routes, stations and arrivals available at http://www.jpp.si/Pregled/Register.jsp (but none for trains). Timetables for city bus routes in Ljubljana are available at http://www.lpp.si/javni-prevoz/vozni-redi-mestni-potniski-promet/vozni-redi-redni . There is also a query-style web service, displaying arrival time for city buses in Ljubljana http://bus.talktrack.com/

Data at national level are incomplete. Also, its machine readability is questionable - most of them are in xls, but some include various footnotes which makes machine readability complicated.

Since 2001, complete database is available only to one company which supplies IT services to Ministry of Transport - Chaps. Other companies consider this a monopoly and a won a lawsuit - the court stated that Chaps should is subjected to Freedom of Information Law. If the FOI request is successful, the data might be available soon. (info updated on Nov 8, 2013).

The data provided above is for Shosholoza Meyl, the national train operator. South African Airways, the national airline is owned by the South African government and could be considered to be public transport. Their website is http://www.flysaa.com/. Data is not available in bulk and can only be accessed through their booking form.

Timetables of the national-level public train services are available and up to date online but only through "search" of PDF. No national bus level service is known.

Only Train services is ran and managed at national level in China so the dataset mentioned here only covers the timetable of train service. The online data is available in a web service on national train service website 12306.cn which is mainly used to book tickets.

See also http://elvira.hu

Management of public transport varies in Bangladesh. While rail communication is fully run and managed by the government, the road and water transport is mostly managed by the private sector where the government-run services are also available. Timetable for passenger and goods services of railway are publicly available, so is the government-run Airlines and public buses. Time schedule of transport services operated by the private sector are not publicly available, though. Cannot find licence information.

Brief description: Transport timetables is one of most common issues here in Russia Timetables managed not by federal, but by regional and local governments. Each regional and local governments publish with several issues: 1. Data is not always published online 2. Data is not always up to date 3. Data is not available as open data 4. No open licenses 5. Measurement of openness of transport data is very limited since it's not concentrated anythere. But rail transport schedules and most airports are public so timetables available. Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist? Yes, national level transport timetables available at http://pass.rzd.ru - it's Russian rail data 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://pass.rzd.ru 6. Is the data machine readable? No, this data provided only as HTML pages 7. Available in bulk? No, this data provided only as HTML pages so it's not available in bulk. 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is owned by federal state enterprise and it's not even public domain data. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on hourly basis. Ivan Pavlov: Despite the fact, that there is copyright sing on the http://pass.rzd.ru, according to the Russian Civil Code (article 1259) information about facts with purely informational character, including the schedule of transport, can not be the object of copyright. Thus, proceeding from the General rule, there are no legal restrictions for use or reuse of information about the schedule of railway transport.

The data is accessible via another gov-portal, Land Transport Authority: http://www.mytransport.sg/content/mytransport/home/dataMall.html#Traffic_Related:Traffic_Images. Review comment: It is uncertain whether the data are machine readable and available in bulk, because you need to file a request to get them.

The information refers only to national railway system (public company). There is no national bus company. The data can be retrieved only by interrogating the database on line.

These are timetables for the public bus system in Iceland's capital region and any public bus routes connecting the capital region and other municipalities.

ANTT theoretically offers timetable data for interstatual bus lines. In order to access the data, users have to fill out a form and can only consult one connection at a time. In Brazil there is no significant public transport on a national level by train. The answers are related to bus transport.

Australia is somewhat limited in the presence of national transport as most public transport operates at the city or state level (An overview of the situation at the city level can be found via http://www.citygoround.org/agencies/au/?public=all which indicates that availability and open licencing varies substantially across states/transit authorities) - and much national transport is privately provided - for example buses via Greyhound Australia (see http://www.greyhound.com.au/). Looking at rail where there is an interstate system, similar to the UK, Australia has a nationally supported rail system in which the actual service is provided by private operators (but track is publicly owned and maintained). Similar to the UK, there are therefore good public interest grounds for the government to require provision of timetable data. Focusing on rail then there is no consolidated database of timetable information - instead you are directed off to each rail companies website where you must do your own lookup using a classic HTML interface. As such it is clear the data exists and is online but is not machine-readable, not in bulk and based on the notice on various websites not open (for example, Transport West Australia's train website has a classic fully restrictive copyright notice at http://www.transwa.wa.gov.au/Default.aspx?tabid=113)

Public transportation in Switzerland is run by a private company, with government regulation (see http://www.admin.ch/opc/fr/classified-compilation/19983388/index.html, in french). An unofficial open transport API with travel timetables has been built and is supported by volunteers in the local Open Data movement: http://transport.opendata.ch - this data is not from the government, nor is officially supported by any Swiss transport agency.

Time table for buses going from one city to the other here: http://www.bus.com.eg/EBus/OnlineServices/Home/index.aspx Cairo International Airport flights timetable http://www.cairo-airport.com/flight_schedule.asp (Cairo Airport and the EgyptAir companies are government-owned).

http://w3.srbrail.rs/zsredvoznje/?lang=en, http://www.bas.rs/RedVoznje.aspx?lng=sc&idDrzave=9

Timetable data for all public transportation services are collected by non-profit organization (possibly other organizations too) by agreement with government and transportation operators. It is publicly available in form suitable for printing (PDF), or in machine readable form as paid service. Some operators consider their timetable data as trade secret - particularly crazy idea for many. Specifically, national level train transportation timetable information is available at http://217.12.48.27/elis/default.aspx (linked from http://www.zsr.sk/). This data is not machine readable and is not available in bulk.

While timetables for trains are commonly available, for other modes of transport we could do with more easily available information. The data provided is public, still there is a "captcha code" facility which mandates human intervention in the search process. Due the heavy web traffic these websites are slow functioning. Marked as "no bulk download" / "not easily machine readable" due to capcha Real time train data is easier to find than timetable data. Cannot find open licence. http://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in/ntes/ -- real time train information https://www.irctc.co.in/ - some train information

Timetables are available at their webpage, but in most cases you should web-scrape them by yourself. JR-Central timetables are in PDF on http://english.jr-central.co.jp/info/timetable/ JR-West timetables are in PDF on http://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/travel-information/timetable/ JR-East timetables are in multi-page plain HTML http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/timetables/index.html Therefore Japan Timetables should get a 'no' to machine readable (see notes above on HTML) JR-Central T&Cs (http://english.jr-central.co.jp/policy/index.html) reserves all rights. JR-West t&Cs (http://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/terms-of-use/) only allow personal use. JR-East T&Cs (http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/termsofuse/index.html) reserves all rights. Therefore Japan Timetables should get a "no" for Open Licence

National rail company (NMBS/ SNCB) has not made access to the data available and has threatened to sue people (iRail) who have used access to the site to provide better user experience. National bus services: - De Lijn (busses / trams / subway in Flanders): timetables available in PDF. Mobile app exists and you can contact them to sign a license if you want the data. - TEC (busses / trams / subway in Wallonia): couldn't find links to data - The STIB/MIVB (busses / trams / subway in Brussels) signed an agreement with Google, not sure if others can get the timetables in the same format. timetables are available in PDF though. Mobile app exists but not sure if API is publicly available.

Train: data can be available via a search engine in HTML format http://www.sncft.com.tn/index.php Bus: data can be available via a search engine in HTML format http://www.sntri.com.tn/html_fr/result_tarif_horaire_sntri.php

Link to national rail service. Can't download and you will need written consent to use the data for anything else besides using the website according to Terms of Use (http://rozklad-pkp.pl/hafas-res/img/Regulamin.pdf).

only trains

Timetable data is spread over state-owned transportation companies websites. Quality of the data varies.

• Name: National Transport Information
• Coverage: schedule of public transportation, including subway, bus, flight, transport node, airport, bus & express bus terminal, train station, inter-regional transportation route among bus, subway, flight,
• Plan long distance trips / Search transfer modes and routes
• Search long distance transport modes and make reservations - Check delay and accident information"

Saudi Arabian Public Transport Company online timetables are not obvious on the official website For general information, fare prices and timetables, dial 800 124 9999, toll-free (with recorded messages in both Arabic and English).

struggled to find route timetables on government websites public bus routes from/to the airport: https://www.hongkongairport.com/eng/transport/to-from-airport/bus_from_hkia.html 5 private bus companies Kowloon Motor Bus Company (KMB) Citybus Limited (CB) New World First Bus Company (NWFB) Long Win Bus Corporation Limited New Lantao Bus Corporation Limited 1 private metro/rail system with online journey planner: http://www.mtr.com.hk/jplanner/eng/planner_index.php HK octopus card is like the UK oyster card

The transport timetables of the Deutsche Bahn are available via an App at http://www.dbfahrplan.com but the data it sefe is not available online. The data is not provided in bulk nor is it not machine readable and openly licensed. The transport timetables are available as PDF via http://kursbuch.bahn.com and on CD rom and have been reverse-engineered at https://github.com/MichaelKreil/openPlanB

Public transport services in Ecuador are privately managed. There are no national-level government operated public transport services. Trains are operated by the government, though these are used only for tourism services and not for public transportation. There are other city-level public transport services operated or commissioned by local governments, like Metrovía in Guayaquil and Trolebus in Quito. This question was answered considering privately operated national-level public transport services (interprovincial buses). Most timetables are available in printed form.

The data is mostly available for the capital Sofia. It's not in an open format, but there is a way to interface with the transportation company's website and is being actively used by several website offering route information and timetables. There are similar websites in other cities, but they mostly rely on static manually entered information on timetables and routes. There is a (mostly) crowdsourced) website allowing search of inter-city busses, but they don't offer data export. The state train company offers search for train routes, but also no export. The data could be scraped in some cases, but in others session information causes great difficulties.

Metlink data covers Wellington region only but is provided by KiwiRail http://www.kiwirail.co.nz/travel. There is no national government bus service.

There is no national central public transport data catalog. Taiwan Railway, Taiwan High Speed Rail and etc., all timetables are in different websites.

The data is available, however, not from the Government. Re-users of the data (third party) created a tool (www.marsrutai.lt) that provides transport data in a user-friendly manner, but does not provide datasets and machine-readable formats.

In Nepal, Time Table data for transportation are not available. Government don't have land/terrestrial transportation. We don't have sea transportation.

NOT APPLICABLE WOULD BE THE BEST RESPONSE HERE. There is no national public transit system in Canada. Public transportation data are only available at the jurisdiction where the service is delivered. Canada as a federation of provinces and territories delivers transit at the level of the city or municipality or other local authority which fall under the jurisdiction of provinces and territories. Cross provincial and territorial transportation would be federally administered but this is not a transit system.

No real public transport system, and what does exist (intercity buses) is found through private websites, not government ones.

National ministry of transport: http://www.sct.gob.mx/

The Data is not available.

There is scattered information about transportation and timetables. There is no national timetables managed by the government, but by each company that have a licensed route. There is information for the train in the Gran Area Metropolitanea (Great Metropolitan Area), but it might not represent the reality. To access this information go to www.incofer.go.cr It may not be up to date. Each company may have online information about their service. In many cases, information available might not be accurate to the reality. not available in one single URL

http://www.redtransporte.com/ is not an official source

The Kenyan public transport system is mostly run by the private sector. Some long distance buses will have travel timetables pinned on the wall in their offices or posted on their websites. The Railway is owned by a private company - Rift Valley Railyway. The only government affiliated public transport system is a railway service but this only serves a section of Nairobi (from Syokimau to Nairobi).