Norfolk brings bus service information into the 21st Century

Technology

Rik Thomas

03 June 2011

By being the first UK transport authority to implement Hogia’s PubTrans data management system, Norfolk County Council says it has reduced the amount of staff time spent on bus service registration by 40%

Norfolk County Council has become the first transport authority in the UK to implement Swedish transport data management company Hogia’s PubTrans system, NCC’s Laurie Egan and Hogia’s Gary Umpleby told the annual ITS-UK conference in Birmingham last month.

The deployment of PubTrans in Norfolk is intended to reduce the amount of time that council staff spend embroiled in the processing of bus service registrations and associated services such as timetables and bus stops, as...