Bus Partnerships are key to Bus Service Improvement Plans and the wider National Bus Strategy.

Providing quality information to customers and understanding network performance will be major parts of any partnership. Key to enabling these is being able to use vehicle location data, all operators are now required to provide their vehicle location to the Bus Open Data Service and as a result is much more accessible than it was.

In this day conference you will find out how you can use automatic vehicle location (AVL) to support the objectives of Enhanced Partnerships and Bus Service Improvement Plans.

You will hear about:

• Reporting and analysis. Monitoring route and network performance, as well as identifying where there are congestion and delay hot spots and future network planning
• Bus priority at traffic lights.
• Information to customers, not only on apps but websites and physical screens.
• Live operations, allowing operators and traffic management teams to intervene in real time to identify incidents and delays so they can intervene quickly to reduce the impact to customers.

We are holding this event in Birmingham to ensure it is as easily to get to from as many places as possible.

The IBIS Birmingham New Street Conference Centre is located just 5 minutes walk from the main station Birmingham New Street Station.