Traveline data enables first UK national journey planning API

We have just released Jeppesen Journey Planner version 7.8. The most exciting new feature in this release is the ability to plan a journey across the whole of the bus and rail networks of Great Britain, making use of the national bus data set from Traveline that was made publically available last month. Combining the national bus data set from Traveline with the national rail timetable data from ATOC enables Jeppesen Journey Planner to offer a unique API service with access to stop locations, stop timetables and multimodal journey plans for any location in each of 10 Traveline regions in England, Scotland and Wales

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Jeppesen Journey Planner Sponsors CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon

We are excited to be co-sponsoring the CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon taking place this weekend in Santa Monica, California, organised by Kin Lane, the API Evangelist. The Hackathon will bring together commercial and civic hackers to build the next generation of apps we’ll use in our everyday local lives.

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Latest Release Now Live

My thanks have to go to our development team, who have been hard at work to deliver our latest release of Jeppesen Journey Planner. The software has now been updated, so you can use all the features described below today, as soon as you start your free trial. I plan to provide more details about how to use these features and the benefits they offer over the coming weeks, but please get in contact if you have any questions, or suggestions for future enhancements. For now, here is a quick summary of the new features that have been deployed with this release:

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UK Train Company Provides Staff Travel Benefits using Jeppesen Journey Planner

UK Public Transport Operator, First Group, has recently relaunched its internal website to engage more effectively with its 38,000 UK employees. Jeppesen worked with communications specialist, Penkom, who created the area of the site which allows staff to book discounted travel on First Group services.

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2nd Place in Sensis Hackathon (but oh so close)

On the 19^th November, Gabriel and Sonia and I headed to Melbourne for the Sensis API Hackathon. The event was held by Sensis to promote their new API which provides access to Yellow Pages business listings. It was also a chance to engage in some friendly competition by pitching iOS developers against Android developers.

Our aim was to get our hands dirty and see what kind of app we could generate when we combined the Sensis API and the transit info provided by Jeppesen Journey Planner (JJP). The other aim was to try not to embarrass ourselves. Up until four weeks before the event, none of us had done any Android development, so we really just wanted to make sure we didn’t get laughed at!

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