Bus Services Act 2025: improving information about local services
Seeks views on using new powers to request and publish bus operators' data and develop a fully digital system for providing local bus service information.
What is being proposed
The Department for Transport (DfT) is seeking views on using powers introduced by the Bus Services Act 2025 to
fully digitise the registration, variation and cancellation processes for local bus services newly require bus registration type information from certain local transport authorities request and publish new data about bus services from operators
The aim is to create a single, open source of information about a wider range of local bus services. The new system should make it simpler for operators and users to input data and easier for the public to access bus service information.
We intend to link the new information provision system to the pre-existing Bus Open Data Service (BODS).
Documents
1How to respond
Online, on the department's own form.
By email to busactdata@dft.gov.uk
Bus Legislation and Franchising, PTLG 2nd Floor, Great Minster House 33 Horseferry Road London SW1P 4DR
Responses close 23 September 2026.