Bus services, routes and timetables

TransXChange bus data and journey times.

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Services

• Apply for supported bus services funding

  Application guidance and funding allocations for supported bus services funding in 2020 to 2021.

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Guidance and regulation

• Report a bus or coach service or driver
  • Detailed guide
  • 24 May 2024
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• A guide to registering and operating local bus services in England and Wales
  • Detailed guide
  • 27 February 2024
  • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
• Bus service improvement plan
  • Guidance
  • 16 January 2024
  • Department for Transport
• Find and use bus open data
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 November 2020
  • Department for Transport
• TransXChange: downloads and schema
  • Guidance
  • 12 March 2014
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• Better buses on the way as government introduces new legislation to boost local control of services
  • 17 December 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Press release
• New Year cheer: £2 bus tickets for thousands of routes
  • 1 January 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Transport update: £2 bus fare cap on a single bus ticket
  • 5 September 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement
• Local transport update: national bus strategy for England published
  • 15 March 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement
• Prime Minister launches £3 billion bus revolution
  • 15 March 2021
  • Department for Transport and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Bus services: local transport authority capacity and capability
  • 19 December 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Bus elasticities and diversion factors
  • 5 July 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Local bus market study
  • 26 January 2016
  • Department for Transport
  • Independent report
• Factors that affect bus journey times
  • 17 December 2015
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Review of DfT bus fares index
  • 28 August 2013
  • Department for Transport
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Bus Services Act 2017: bus open data
  • 27 March 2019
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 16 September 2018
• Restricted licence holders: level of financial resources
  • 23 November 2018
  • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 31 August 2018
• Bus back better
  • 15 March 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• A better deal for bus users
  • 6 February 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• Department for Transport
• Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street