Tower Transit uses Omnibus in Channel Islands

Tower Transit is to improve access to its bus services in the Channel Islands using Omnibus’ General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Exporter.

The GTFS Exporter will take scheduled service information from the operator’s cloud-based Omnibus scheduling suite and create all the data structures and formatting required for a compliant data export. This export can be used to feed downstream systems such as journey planners and information displays that inform customers of bus times.

Omnibus has extensive experience in designing interfaces to external systems, having developed data sharing solutions to meet various standards set around the world.

“The GTFS Exporter will ensure Tower Transit can easily and accurately get fixed route service information into the hands of customers” – Sam Greaves, Commercial Manager at Tower Transit

Sam Greaves, Commercial Manager at Tower Transit, said: “It is crucial for Tower Transit to stay ahead in the evolving landscape of passenger transport. The GTFS Exporter will ensure Tower Transit can easily and accurately get fixed route service information into the hands of customers using our LibertyBus (Jersey) and buses.gg (Guernsey) brands in the Channel Islands.”

Peter Crichton, Founder of Omnibus, said: “Structuring data in the expected format within a data export file is an overwhelming task. To make this process faster and easier, our timetabling solution (OmniTIMES) automatically does this in the background. This allows users to keep their focus on writing timetables and plotting the routes, and our exporter modules do all the heavy lifting of creating compliant exports.”