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Transport Timetables / 2014 36% open (avg.)

Ranked #8 against other datasets in the Index (avg.)
The Index average ranking for Transport Timetables is up from #9 in 2013

About

Timetables of major government operated (or commissioned) national-level public transport services (specifically bus and train). The focus here is on national level services (not those which operate only at a municipal or city level and which are not controlled or regulated by the national government). A 'yes' in any question will refer to both types of transport. However, if there is no national level service operated or regulated by the government for a given type of transport (for instance busses), then this type is ignored in this data category. Data submitted in this category should meet the following minimum criteria:

  • Time of operating
  • Time of leaving first station and arriving to the last station
  • Updated at least once a year

Rank Place Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. Score
1 Taiwan
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http://data.gov.tw/node/6138 XML #52  10% 100%
1 Taiwan

There is no national central public transport data catalog. Taiwan Railway, Taiwan High Speed Rail and etc., all timetables are in different websites. No changes in 2014.

People can download different timetables they need in http://data.gov.tw.

  1. Domestic Airline timetable in CSV format: http://data.gov.tw/node/6066
  2. Bus timetable in CSV format: http://data.gov.tw/node/6052
  3. Railway in XML format: http://data.gov.tw/node/6138
  4. High Speed Railway in CSV format: http://data.gov.tw/node/7080

They are all provided by Ministry of Transportation and Communication but from different department.

And the open data platform is built by Taiwan gov. so, I think those data sets are eligible.


1 United Kingdom
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http://data.atoc.org/rail-indu... n/a #1  100% 100%
1 United Kingdom

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.

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. Data is provided by Translink NI Railways: http://www.translink.co.uk/Services/NI-Railways/Routes--Timetables/All-Timetables/

It cannot be downloaded in bulk and is not provided in a machine readable format (only PDF). There was posted a freedom to information request on the What-do-they-know portal: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/availability_of_timetable_statio but it was not successful (data could not be released). Also a general problem is that both data providers are private entities and not an official government related source.

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


1 Romania
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http://data.gov.ro/dataset/mer... XML #13  45% 100%
1 Romania

The information refers only to national railway system (public company). There is no national bus company. The data was published recently on the government's open data portal data.gov.ro.


1 Finland
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http://developer.matka.fi/page... n/a #1  100% 100%
1 Finland

No changes since 2013

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


1 Uruguay
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https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/d... CSV n/a 100%
1 Uruguay

Metadata also available as a text file in spanish which describes the csv files. For each column in the csv, a description is provided.


1 Colombia
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http://datosabiertoscolombia.c... EXCEL, ... n/a 100%
1 Colombia

Es importante aclarar que se sugiere suministrar esta información de carácter regional teniendo en cuenta que la información de Transporte no está centralizada ya que es potestad de las entidades que administran los sistemas y las entidades territoriales definir los horarios


1 Chile
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http://datos.gob.cl/datasets/v... GTSF n/a 100%
1 Chile

This data set only considers the transport system information of Santiago de Chile.


1 Iceland
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http://www.straeto.is/um-strae... XML #13  45% 100%
1 Iceland

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.

In order to use the data, each user must register an IP address from which to access the data (for intermediate server caching and to get contact persons).


9 Switzerland
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http://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/d... HRDF ... #13  45% 95%
9 Switzerland

Public transportation in Switzerland is run by a private company (SBB/CFF/FFS) with government regulation (see federal railroads law, in French). Open timetable data that is not supported by a Swiss transport agency can be found in an unofficial API: transport.opendata.ch

Since beginning of 2014, the SBB/CFF/FFS has started to published an export of the full timetable for Switzerland bus, train and other public transport modes on the Info+ system. This data is available for download after registration, and can be freely used and republished as long as the data is kept up to date and links are provided to the publisher. geOps AG also provides a GTFS feed of this data.


9 Sweden
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http://www.trafiklab.se/api/gt... GTFS #4  80% 95%
9 Sweden

Available in GTFS format. License is a modification of CC-BY with some limitations on areas of use.. Unsure if this counts as open data.


11 Korea, Republic of
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http://openapi.tago.go.kr/open... JSON, XML #43  30% 90%
11 Korea, Republic of


11 Norway
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http://labs.rutebok.no/ JSON, XML #3  90% 90%
11 Norway

NRI took over the responsibility of providing national travel data in 2013, and they're still in a process of getting more data (accessibility, realtime etc), more frequent updates, expanding their API etc. All public and private companies providing personal transport are required to export data to NRI, and they as of 2014-11-19 have 214 companies in their database, according to their API.

Whether data is available in bulk is uncertain. This depends on the definition. I've been strict here, since it was not trivial to download the raw base data for all routes in Norway with the current API-documentation. You can however easily list all transport companies, the routes they provide, search to/from and get trip-results, query for further details on each journey etc.

Note1: the license is not prominently mentioned on the website. It is mentioned on the form you have to fill out to get an API-key.

Note2: many of the local providers have their own APIs with more functionality, real time data etc. Most notably labs.ruter.no

(Reviewer-comments, 2014)


13 Isle of Man
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http://www.gov.im/publictransp... PDF #12  55% 75%
13 Isle of Man

Includes bus, steam train, electric tram and horse tram timetables in PDF.

Requested CSV/XLS export but apparently issues with legacy system, resources, etc. Recently more positive engagement, so hopeful a shift to GTFS and mobile app. Most routes have already been independently handcoded into GTFS format by the local open data community to accelerate adoption.

Confirmed that footer on public transport content is outdated and incorrectly links to outdated terms and conditions not the new IM OGL based on the UK OGL.


13 Thailand
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http://home.transport.co.th/en... n/a n/a 75%
13 Thailand

Transport Co.,Ltd is Thai state enterprise that provide buses service between Bangkok to every region of Thailand included cross borders bus service.

There are no centralised data portal for all transportable mode, it still scattered based on responsible agencies. Additional sources for another mode of transportation are:

Train: http://www.railway.co.th/checktime/checktime.asp Airplane: http://www.airportthai.co.th/main/th/real-time-flight-schedule


15 Latvia
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http://www.pv.lv/lv/vilcienu_s... XLS n/a 70%
15 Latvia

This entry is about public train transport in Latvia. The bus transport is operated at a municipal level.

Live train schedules, including pricing information, are published at http://www.pv.lv/lv/vilcienu_saraksts

There is also an XLS version available that contains all the schedules together and is reasonably up-to-date (last updates: 2014-Oct-13): http://www.pv.lv/lv/kopejais_iekszemes_vilcienu_kustibas_saraksts/

Both versions should be up-to-date but the live version may also contain information about unscheduled changes.

See also:


15 Ireland
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http://www.transportforireland... GTFS #9  60% 70%
15 Ireland

MACHINE READABLE: YES, the files are in GTFS and some in TransXChange format.
AVAILABLE IN BULK: YES, as of mid 2014.

OPENLY LICENSED: NO Based on our interpretations of Terms and According to the OKF definition the license is considered 'CLOSED' it is a RE-USE of PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION UNDER THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (RE-USE OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION) REGULATIONS 2005 (SI 279/2005) Licence (http://www.transportforireland.ie/terms-conditions/). The problem areas for the licence are:

(4) not using the document:

(a) for the principal purpose of advertising or promoting a particular product or service; (Interpreted by some as being non commercial purposes)

(b) for an illegal, immoral, fraudulent or dishonest purpose or in support of the aforementioned purposes (immoral is the problem as who gets to decide what is and is not immoral)

5.Sub-Licensing

5.1.The benefit of this License may not be sub-licensed. (impedes interoperability)


15 Turkey
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http://www.iett.gov.tr/en/main... text n/a n/a 70%
15 Israel
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http://he.mot.gov.il/index.php... GTFS - ... #7  70% 70%
15 Israel

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. In addition to the real-time data, the Ministry provides static, statistical data.


15 France
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http://ressources.data.sncf.co... GTFS #4  80% 70%
15 France

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.


20 Denmark
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http://labs.rejseplanen.dk/lab... XML ... #9  60% 60%
20 Denmark

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


21 Bangladesh
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http://www.railway.gov.bd/site... n/a #13  45% 55%
21 Bangladesh

Bus and Train services are maintained by different authorities in Bangladesh. The submission form should have the option to mention this information properly.


21 Bermuda
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http://www.gov.bm/portal/serve... n/a #13  45% 55%
21 Bermuda

In July 2014, The Department of Public Transportation published a PATI (Public Access to Information) Information statement. It can be found here:

PTB PATI Information Statement


21 Croatia
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http://www.hzpp.hr/lgs.axd?t=1... PDF #13  45% 55%
21 Croatia

Vozni red 2013/2014. - vlakovi u unutarnjem i međunarodnom prometu

Timetables can also be searched online at: http://www.hzpp.hr/voznired

There is no national level service operated or regulated by the government for the bus transport.


24 Moldova, Republic of
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http://www.autogara.md/orar/ n/a #9  60% 45%
24 Moldova, Republic of

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


24 Slovakia
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http://www.zsr.sk/slovensky/vy... HTML #13  45% 45%
24 Slovakia

Timetable data for all public transportation services are collected by non-profit organization (possibly other organizations too) thanks to 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://www.zsr.sk/slovensky/vyhladavanie-elis.html?page_id=2990 (linked from http://www.zsr.sk/). This data is not machine readable and is not available in bulk.


24 Portugal
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http://www.cp.pt/cp/displayPag... online, ... #13  45% 45%
24 Portugal

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. (No changes from 2013)


24 New Zealand
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http://www.kiwirailscenic.co.n... n/a #51  15% 45%
24 New Zealand

There are a lot of long-distance (national-level) coach services offered by private companies (Intercity, Naked Bus, for example). The NZ Transport Agency is the regulator for land transport and provides licenses for operating long-distance buses (http://www.nzta.govt.nz/commercial/passenger/types.html). Currently they don't provide any timetable data on long-distance transport, though. The long-distance bus companies provide timetables on their website, these are not unified in one database, though. Also, it is currently difficult to know, which long-distance coach services with regular timetables exist as there is no registry of all available services.

The national rail network is limited and there are no published data sets, just timetables. Data is provided in non-machine readable format - just HTML.

Metlink data covers Wellington region and is available in GTFS format at http://www.metlink.org.nz/customer-services/general-transit-feed-specification/

Auckland Transport data covers Auckland region and is available in GTFS format from https://at.govt.nz/bus-train-ferry/more-services/google-transit-feed/


24 Jamaica
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http://jutc.com/timetables.php... n/a n/a 45%
24 Jamaica

Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited is a government agency managing public transport system.

The dataset for transport timetables are all available online. The numbers can be found on http://jutc.com/busterminals.php and you go to http://jutc.com/timetables.php and enter the bus number shown from the first link. When you click go, you will be shown details regarding that bus and a link that has its time schedule. Click the link and you will find the times for each destination port.


24 Brazil
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https://appweb.antt.gov.br/sgp... .asp ... #13  45% 45%
24 Brazil

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.


24 Hungary
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http://menetrendek.hu n/a #13  45% 45%
24 Hungary

See also http://elvira.hu [No change from 2013]


24 Russian Federation
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http://pass.rzd.ru HTML #13  45% 45%
24 Russian Federation

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.

Comment: No updates since 2013 year


24 Slovenia
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http://www.ap-ljubljana.si/ http://www.slo-zeleznice.si/en... HTML, XML #13  45% 45%
24 Slovenia

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/


24 Australia
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http://www.railaustralia.com.a... HTML #13  45% 45%
24 Australia

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)


24 Austria
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http://www.oebb.at/de/Reisepla... n/a #52  10% 45%
24 Austria

The state-owned Austrian Railways (ÖBB) makes the schedules of its trains available in PDF files but retains the full copyright. The links to the PDF files can be found on a single page, the data is updated twice a year as schedules change.


24 South Africa
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https://www.shosholozameyl.co.... Images #13  45% 45%
24 South Africa

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 be accessed through their Route Mapper http://destinations.flysaa.com/en/routemap. There is no government-owned national bus service.


24 Serbia
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http://w3.srbrail.rs/zsredvozn... n/a #13  45% 45%
24 Serbia

Only train timetable is available. There is no national level bus service operated or commissioned by the government. However, some municipal bus stations do have timetable available online: Belgrade: http://www.bas.rs/redvoznje.aspx?lng=sl Novi Sad: http://www.gspns.rs/red-voznje-medjumesni.php


24 Japan
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http://english.jr-central.co.j... PDF, HTML n/a 45%
24 Japan

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.


24 Spain
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http://renfe.es n/a #55  0% 45%
24 Spain

No related information found in both the Ministerio de Fomento1 or the Spanish OpenData Portal2. The timetables for national-level trains are available at renfe.es site. Bus data can be found here - http://www.alsa.es/en/

1 http://www.fomento.gob.es

2 http://datos.gob.es


24 United States
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http://www.amtrak.com/train-sc... n/a #6  75% 45%
24 United States

National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a publicly funded railroad service operated and managed as a for-profit corporation. Amtrak provides the most meaningful national-scale transportation timetables, as the United States has no national bus service that is publicly funded. For information on local transportation data, see: http://www.citygoround.org/agencies/us/?public=all

Additional transportation data is available from the US Department of Transportation at http://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=dot-gov 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.


24 Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
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http://liniskiprevoz.gov.mk/se... n/a n/a 45%
24 Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of

The Ministry of Transport and Communications provide a registry of all bus lines. There is only an online search function. Search results are provided in HTML format, no download is available. Train timetables are maintained by the Macedonian Rail Company (http://mztransportad.com.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160&Itemid=287&lang=mk) but only provided in PDF format. The train timetables can be found here: http://mztransportad.com.mk/dokumenti/IZMENETO-DZEPNO--PDF%20Juni-2014.pdf


24 Pakistan
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24 Pakistan

Link is not working and there is no alternative link at the moment. No changes from 2013.


24 Czech Republic
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http://portal.idos.cz/ xls, pdf #13  45% 45%
24 Czech Republic

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. The ministry promised to open the datasets, there is a new regulation, that should come into force in September 2015.


24 India
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24 India

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

Please note that erail.in is not an official government source.


24 China
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24 China

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.

nothing changed in 2014


24 Georgia
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24 Georgia

The schedule given above is a general schedule of all trains; it doesn't contain schedule information for arrival and departure times for all stations that a train stops at. This page allows users to see departure and arrival times for all stations, but it is not available in bulk; the starting/ending stations must be filled in individually: http://www.railway.ge/samg/searchTrains.aspx?lang=en-US

A copyright notice specifying "Copyright 2014 Georgian Railway. All Rights Reserved" is at the bottom of most timetable pages, although some pages have no copyright notice at all.

Georgian Railway is a government-owned corporation in Georgia.


24 Belgium
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24 Belgium

National rail company (NMBS/ SNCB) has not made access to the data available.

However a 3rd party group iRail has made this data available for the general public, machine readable as well as in bulk, under an open license. Thanks to the European database law, public transit schedules are not copyrighted. Therefore the data is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute.


47 Egypt
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https://enr.gov.eg/ticketing/p... n/a #13  45% 35%
47 Egypt

The trains time schedule is available online on the website of the Egyptian National Railways Authority. You can only search with specific data and start/stop stations, no way to download data in bulk. The search boxed are not user friendly.

In addition to trains, timetable for buses going from one city to the other are available on the website of the Holding Company for Maritime and Land Transport: http://www.bus.com.eg/EBus/OnlineServices/Home/index.aspx

Cairo International Airport flights timetable are available here: http://www.cairo-airport.com/flight_schedule.asp (Cairo Airport and the EgyptAir companies are government-owned).

Final reviewer: On none of the websites a clear mention of update procedure was identified. Thus, it is unknown whether the information provided is released on a timely and up-to-date basis. The three websites carry a 'copyright' mention at the bottom: the information is thus the property of the respective institution. Lastly, as the data is solely queriable through a web-based interface, it is admitted that the data is not provided in a machine-readable format; there is no way to easily download the whole dataset, therefore data is not available for download in bulk.


47 Netherlands
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47 Netherlands

  • There's a legal provision that says that if someone asks for the data the transport provider is obliged to give it (in Dutch: Besluit personenvervoer 2000, Hoofdstuk 1, Artikel 10.)
  • There's a private entity '9292' which licenses out the data they've got from all the providers in a non-open way (current old entry)
  • There's another, more community-oriented grassroots entity 'OpenOV' that is providing the data under CC-0 (proposed new entry). Neither of these entries are officially valid for the Index, because they are not from a government source. So should technically be rejected. However, there is a legal provision that gives people the right to obtain the data, even though they don't provide it themselves

47 Oman
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47 Oman

The assessment was performed with data for the National Ferries Company data; the NFC is a government-owned company for sea transport between major cities in Oman. The data was marked as not up-to-date as the website explicitly states: "Schedule is subject to change, for latest schedule & updates or any queries kindly contact NFC – Call Centre during office office hours on 800 72 000 or (968) 98111162." Thus, there is no tangible reason to consider that the website provides timely and up-to-date information. Data is available as HTML tables only (static webpages per route). No information was identified regarding fares though.

The other systematic public transportation system available in Oman operated by the government is through the buses of the government-owned Oman National Transport Company. The website of ONTC ( http://www.ontcoman.com/ ) does not provide actual information on fares and routes (http://www.ontcoman.com/booking.php is under construction at the time of review). The available information is on the different services the ONTC provides (see http://www.ontcoman.com/services.php).


47 Tunisia
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47 Tunisia

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

Data updates are not clearly indicated thus it is unknown whether data is provided on a timely and up-to-date basis.


47 Zimbabwe
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47 Zimbabwe

National Railways of Zimbabwe is the parastatal railway of Zimbabwe.

Data is only available in PDF and there are separate PDFs for each individual line. It is unclear when this data was last updated


47 Côte d'Ivoire
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47 Côte d'Ivoire

I have done a significant amount of investigation and these are my conclusions:


47 Morocco
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47 Morocco

Data is partially available: train, tramway and plane schedules are posted on the official website of the respective websites (http://www.tram-way.ma/fr/ ; http://www.casatramway.ma/ ; http://www.onda.ma/ ; http://www.oncf.ma/Pages/Accueil.aspx ; http://www.ctm.ma/). Data is not provided at all. The visitor can only send queries through a web interface. Each website (thus, institution) has its own copyright on each website.

Regarding whether information is provided on a timely and up-to-date basis: One would imagine so as these are frequently used services. Yet no indication is available to inform on when the last update was done.


47 Paraguay
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47 Paraguay

This refers only to Intercity Bus timetables, which are regulated at national level, but the timetibles are pubished by the Central Bus Station at Asuncion

Data Quality [Content] (4): The data is not complete, only long distance trips are listed (more than 20km). Metropolitan area data are missing, only the older versions from the dataset are complete. A full list of all transports is needed.

Data Quality [Structure] (4): The data is not well structured, and is very difficult to process due to the irregular syntax.

Contacts: Terminal de Ómnibus de Asunción - +595 21 551740 - +595 21 551741

Setama - +595 21 664 077 - http://www.setama.gov.py Dinatran - +595 21 582 145 - +595 21 582 990 - http://www.dinatran.gov.py/


55 Senegal
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n/a n/a #36  35% 30%
55 Senegal

According to Genova, no change from 2013.


55 Cambodia
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55 Cambodia

This is not a timetable, but rather the bus route. The bus system in Phnom Penh just emerge recently as an effort to solve a traffic congestion by providing an alternative of public transportation.


57 Germany
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57 Germany

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

No change from 2013.


58 Bulgaria
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http://www.sofiatraffic.bg/bg/... HTML #50  20% 20%
58 Bulgaria

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. Whichever the website considered, the data is systematically the property of the institution that operates the website. It is unclear how other websites access this information but on the original websites, it is impossible to download the data in bulk and it is copyrighted by the respective institution.


59 Lithuania
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n/a n/a #52  10% 10%
59 Lithuania

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.


60 Argentina
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60 Argentina

The site of the Nacional Secretary of Transport doesn´t have timetables in open data - http://www.transporte.gov.ar or in the national open data portal: http://datospublicos.gov.ar.

There is an app to track the line Sarmiento (train) in Buenos Aires (City and Province) but the data doesn't see to be available to the public. The application is available at the Ministry of Internal Affairs: http://www.mininterior.gob.ar/tramitesyservicios/apps.php

(This is a submission by Yamila Garcia)


61 Kosovo
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61 Mexico
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61 Mexico

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

Data exists on municipal level.


61 Kenya
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61 Kenya

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). [Unchanged since 2013]


61 Guatemala
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61 Guatemala

As per wikitravel: There is a rail network but, aside from the occasional steam charter aimed at tourist groups, no trains - neither freight nor passenger - have run since 2007. http://wikitravel.org/en/Guatemala

There seem to be no major government operated or commissioned bus services, timetables are found on private company websites.


61 Virgin Islands, U.S.
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61 Virgin Islands, U.S.

The information does not seem to available in general. Something can be found on a tourist site: http://www.vinow.com/ which does give a hint at a time table for each island, e.g. for St. Croix: http://www.vinow.com/stcroix/getting_around_stx/

However this cannot be regarded as official information and furthermore the tourist site claims: "The Bus System is not very reliable, if you are limited in time it is not recommendable."


61 Cameroon
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61 Cameroon

There is some transportation companies, we don't know what kind of agreement they have with the Government. At any case no data are available from both concerning public transsport.


61 Canada
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61 Canada

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 change from 2013)


61 Italy
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n/a n/a #36  35% 0%
61 Italy

The situation of public transport in Italy is not homogeneous Each agency is working on a regional level and with its policies Many of them publish on google transit, but do not release as open date. The only national coverage is given to transport by train, but the data are not open.


61 Ghana
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61 Ghana

There is only one type of dataset for transport in Ghana - train. I could not find any information about buses. Data is not machine readable, not publicly licensed of updated on a regular basis, abhttp://www.fahrplancenter.com/GhanaTimings.html


61 Lebanon
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61 Lebanon

http://www.public-works.gov.lb/ This was linked through the MOIM website. It is not working or (maybe) never has. Need to look for other possible sources.


61 El Salvador
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61 El Salvador

It does not exist public transportation timetable in El Salvador. The public transportation service is provided by a third-party as a concession service.


61 Hong Kong
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n/a n/a n/a #43  30% 0%
61 Guinea
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n/a n/a n/a n/a 0%
61 Cyprus
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61 Cyprus

There is a link in the Department of Road Transport website for transportation information (http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/rtd/rtd.nsf/rtd71_gr/rtd71_gr?OpenDocument), but this does not include any timetables. Any information on bus transportation can be found through private websites, not government ones.


61 Ecuador
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61 Ecuador

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, and some bus companies have it published on their websites.


61 Panama
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61 Panama

The metropolitan bus service MiBus, http://www.mibus.com.pa/, only contain routes without times.

The Website for the national Bus Transport System is under construction. http://www.grantnt.com/


61 Haiti
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61 Haiti

The public transportation is mostly privately owned in Haiti.


61 Sierra Leone
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61 Sierra Leone

There is no evidence that this data exists. The Ministry for Transport and Aviation does not appear to have a website; neither does the Sierra Leone Roads Transport Authority. Finally, the Sierra Leone Government Railway was closed in 1974.


61 Mali
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61 Mali

Urban transportation is provided entirely by the informal sector. No public transport at national level or capital level.


61 Botswana
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61 Botswana

Submitters comments: There are no digital timetables available online, (there is no passenger train service). All public transport is privately owned. There are basic timetables available in printed form upon request as is a rudimentary description of minibus routes - but not online.

Reviewers comments: Online research confirms that since 2009 there has not been public train transportation services in Botswana (since state-owned Botswana Railways folded), although services from Zimbabve still run through a very small part of the country. There are plenty of bus services, but all appear to be run by privately owned companies. As a consequence I have marked this dataset as not available.


61 Indonesia
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61 Indonesia

The website is unavailable. It said: Halaman yang Anda Minta Tidak Ditemukan.


61 Benin
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61 Benin

No public transportation system at national level or in the capital.


61 Philippines
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61 Philippines

The Department of Transport and Communications published open GTFS data regarding the transport in the metropolitan area of Manila: http://www.dotc.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=704&Itemid=167

Apart from this train times are published on the website of the Philippine National Railway: http://www.pnr.gov.ph/schedules.htm The data is published in JPG and HTML.

There is no consolidated data on time tables of regional and interregional bus lines.


61 Burkina Faso
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61 Burkina Faso

The government do not operate,and do not regulate any national-level public transport services.


61 Zambia
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61 Zambia

Rail services in Zambia are operated by the Railway Systems of Zambia (RSZ) and TAZARA Railway, both are privately owned companies.


61 Greece
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61 Lesotho
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61 Lesotho

There are no timetables for public transport sector as the transport is informally operated. There are no passenger trains in Lesotho so there is no data for trains.


61 Nigeria
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61 Nigeria

The Data is not available. No changes for 2014


61 Rwanda
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61 Rwanda

Rwanda's Ministry of Infrastructure (MINIFRA) are responsible for transport in Rwanda and acts as a regulator, but they do not provide public transport across the country: http://www.mininfra.gov.rw/

Some local/regional authorities like the City of Kigali do provide some details on their website of public transport/bus timetables but the information is in text form and it is not clear how reliable the information is as private operators provide the services: http://www.kigalicity.gov.rw/spip.php?article1174&var_recherche=transport


61 Tanzania, United Republic of
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61 Bosnia and Herzegovina
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61 Bosnia and Herzegovina

There are numerous web sites with information about municipal bus timetables (most outdated) as well as train timetables at the level of Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine and Republika Srpska. However, there is no centralized data supplied by the national government.


61 Nepal
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61 Nepal

In Nepal, Time Table data for transportation are not available. Government don't directly manage land/terrestrial transportation for the public. We don't have sea transportation. But there is some timetable for long route transportation within the country which, however, is not maintained properly.


61 Costa Rica
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61 Costa Rica

There is scattered information about transportation and timetables. From the government, we only get information on routes – http://www.aresep.go.cr/index.php/inicio/mapas-de-rutas-de-autobuses

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

There are maps by a regulator agency, by route and in jpg. and not all routes have a map.