DfT Bus Open Data

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(Not sure if this is the right place to report this) A few observations about the following bit of TfL Bus Open Data data:

<VehicleActivity>
    <RecordedAtTime>2021-11-27T04:16:04+00:00</RecordedAtTime>
    <ItemIdentifier>b27232b9-e7d8-47f6-a128-7676009847a3</ItemIdentifier>
    <ValidUntilTime>2021-11-27T04:21:58.915210</ValidUntilTime>
    <MonitoredVehicleJourney>
        <LineRef>443</LineRef>
        <DirectionRef>2</DirectionRef>
        <PublishedLineName>36</PublishedLineName>
        <OperatorRef>TFLO</OperatorRef>
        <OriginRef>490010204K</OriginRef>
        <OriginName>New Cross Bus Garage</OriginName>
        <DestinationRef>490012248W</DestinationRef>
        <DestinationName>Peckham Road / Southampton Way</DestinationName>
        <OriginAimedDepartureTime>2021-11-28T03:41:00+00:00</OriginAimedDepartureTime>
        <VehicleLocation>
            <Longitude>-0.165228</Longitude>
            <Latitude>51.516563</Latitude>
        </VehicleLocation>
        <Bearing>315.0</Bearing>
        <VehicleJourneyRef>81405</VehicleJourneyRef>
        <VehicleRef>9085</VehicleRef>
    </MonitoredVehicleJourney>
    <Extensions/>
</VehicleActivity>
  • The OriginAimedDepartureTime is one day in the future – seems to happen in the early hours of the morning
  • The VehicleRefs are different to the different to the vehicleIds used by the TfL API. It’s possible to convert between the two – 9085 above I think corresponds to YY67URO – but would be nicer if they were consistent
  • The DestinationRef and DestinationName aren’t quite right in the example above – the journey confinutes to Queen’s Park (490013353E)