The Scottish Bus Open Data Consultation
S4 Training, compliance and enforcement
Our aim for bus open data is that the data is provided to the public in a consistently high standard. We recognise that these new Regulations will require many operators, local authorities, regional transport partnerships, and other actors in the travel data space, to adapt to new processes, train staff, and potentially invest in new software.
As such, Transport Scotland intend to work collaboratively with the industry to ensure that new Regulations can be complied with. We will support industry in understanding the new requirements, any new processes they introduce and any new roles and responsibilities.
While it will be possible for a third party data aggregator to offer data publishing or support data activities, this would not alter the statutory responsibilities of individual parties.
There will be compliance requirements, for example about the amount or accuracy of the data provided. This could include monitoring of statistics, issues and quality of data published. An overall compliance score could also be made available to track trends if this would be useful.