What information will be required?

Section 40 of the 2019 Act allows Scottish Minsters to lay in Parliament Regulations that require bus operators, Local Transport Authorities and the Scottish Traffic Commissioner to provide information about bus services for the purpose of improving journey planning for passengers and potential passengers.

These regulations, which will be supported by guidance, will require the following information.

• Information about routes, stopping places, timetables, fares and tickets,
• Information about changes or proposed changes to routes, stopping places, timetables, fares and tickets,
• Information about the operation of services including (but not limited to) real time information about the location of vehicles operating the services and the times at which they stop, (or are expected to stop), at stopping places, and information about the operation of services in the past.

The legislation will specify the manner and format that this information must be provided in, who it is to be provided to, and how often. This consultation is intended to provide an opportunity to gather views on these details and to provide comment on any other information which you feel would be useful to include but is not listed here.

While all views will be welcome, we anticipate that the technical format of how information is provided will not have wide public interest, and it is likely that only bus operators themselves that will have views on this area. That being the case we have allowed for respondents to ‘skip’ the more technical questions at the end of the consultation if preferable. However, any respondent can skip any question they choose to from the main question bank