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TfL website in the cloud – why and how
This post is designed to build on the previous posts within this blog that discuss TfL’s choice of cloud hosting for the website. Below are videos of Phil Young, the head of TfL Online, and Solution...
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TfL Unified API Part 1: Introduction
TfL have been a leader amongst Transport and Government departments in the provision of free and open data to the public, and actively encourage the use of data by 3rd party developers across multiple...
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Unified API Part 2: LoT – Location of Things
Last week, I gave a brief overview of what’s in the API, and said that if something is on our website then it should be in our API. Over the next couple of weeks we are going to take a look at some of...
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Over the Air 2015 – TfL talk Open Data
The 7th Over the Air took place on the 25th & 26th of September, 2015 at St. John’s in Hoxton, London and Transport for London were delighted to provide two speakers at the event on Friday 25th....
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Unified API Part 3: RoT – Routes of Things
In Part 2 of this series, Dan gave examples of finding the “Locations of Things” using the Unified API. This week, I’ll focus on the “Routes of Things” – the lines, routes and services that join up the...
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Unified API Part 4: Roads Data
In Part 3 of this series, I gave examples of finding the ‘Routes of Things’ using the Unified API. This post will focus on roads – how to find and make use of the traffic, road disruption and planned...
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Unified API Part 5: AoT – Arrivals of Things
In Part 3 of this series, I gave examples of finding the Routes of Things using the Unified API. This article focusses on the “Arrivals of Things” – how to find out when services are going to arrive on...
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Is customer flow data useful to developers?
With a real focus on our Unified API and open data policy in recent months, both on this blog and through the Hackathons and events (such as the Urban Traffic Hackathon a few weeks ago) that TfL staff...
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Standardisation in roads open data
This week we have a guest post from Duncan Elder, an Associate with IBI Group and a specialist in transport data, spatial information and customer information systems. In Part 4 of the series on the...
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TfL Online 2015 Review – How “Every Journey Matters”
I get the honour of the final blog post of 2015, and it’s a pleasing one to be able to write as we look back on what the team in TfL Online have achieved during this year. We started off the year...
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Improved Roads Open Data – Car Parks & JamCams
In my previous post on Roads Open Data I outlined the importance of providing quality data for London’s roads, particularly at a time when our Road Modernisation Plan is being implemented and we are...
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Disruptive Technology & Road Transport Event – Register Now
Register now for the Disruptive Technology and Road Transport event, taking place at New London Architecture on Wednesday February 10. With London’s population on course to grow to more than 10...
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Traffic Data Hack Day – Register Now
**Registration for this event is now closed** Introduction TfL’s Urban Traffic Control System (UTC) uses 12,000 sensors located at junctions across the Capital to measure traffic flow. The data...
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Data City | Data Nation – Transport and Mobility Event
Introduction Join us for the launch of the London Data City | Data Nation transport and mobility challenge on Tuesday 12 April. Hosted by Digital Catapult, this event will set the scene for the...
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Traffic Data Hack Day – Event Review
As previously outlined in our post on March 30 on this blog, the Traffic Data Hack Day was hosted by Amazon Web Services on April 6. The event was attended by TfL employees, academics working within...
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Data City | Data Nation Launch – The Challenge is Underway
The London Data City | Data Nation challenge was launched on the morning of Tuesday 12 April at an event hosted by Digital Catapult. The launch event outlined the context and details of the 6...
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Unified API: Live Tram Arrivals Added
We’ve recently integrated live tram arrivals into our predictions API, and I’ve updated the information on my previous API post Unified API Part 5: AoT – Arrivals of Things to reflect this. This means...
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London Data City | Data Nation Challenge – Extra Info
As previously posted on this blog, London Data City | Data Nation was launched on 12 April, with a series of 6 month-long challenges being undertaken by teams in London and Singapore. The first in the...
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TfL Open Data Evening – Event Review
TfL held an open data evening at the AWS Loft last week and the event saw experts from TfL discuss the recent and upcoming additions to our Unified API, alongside other new datasets which could be...
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Data City | Data Nation Challenge – Update
Chirdeep Chhabra from Digital Catapult gives an update on the Transport and Mobility Challenge, including an extended deadline for those taking part. Rikesh Shah, Lead Relationship Manager at TfL,...
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