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The portal offered a door-to-door journey planner which allowed the user to compare different transport modes including car, rail, bus and coach, air, walking and cycling. Specific features included: Routing using one or more modes: local bus, coaches, rail and walking. Cycle journey planning for 32 towns and counties. [3]
The Ayrshire Coast Line is one of the lines within the Strathclyde suburban rail network in Scotland. It has 26 stations and connects the Ayrshire coast to Glasgow. There are three branches, to Largs, Ardrossan Harbour and Ayr, all running into the high level at Glasgow Central. The route is operated by ScotRail.
The ""Routes"" system of London Transport, now TfL, in use before the development of the on-line planner and covering all public transport services in London, was another example of a mainframe OLTP journey planner and included a large database of tourist attractions and popular destinations in London.
Levenmouth is an area of high deprivation and Fife Council estimates that an hourly train link (using the Fife Circle services) to Edinburgh would increase available job vacancies by 500% since commuting for work would become possible. [13] The plan to re-open the rail link to Leven was approved by the Scottish Government on 8 August 2019. [14]
Traveline is a public transport route planner service provided by a partnership between local authorities and transport operators in the UK to provide impartial and comprehensive information about public transport which has operated since 2000. [1]
On 1 January 2006, Transport Scotland was established, which would oversee the regulation of railways in Scotland and administer major rail projects. [10] Since April 2022, Transport Scotland has taken ScotRail back into public ownership via its operator of last resort , Scottish Rail Holdings . [ 11 ]
ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (Scottish Gaelic: Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. [1] It has been operating the ScotRail franchise as an operator of last resort since 1 April 2022.
All Scottish operations (excluding the WCML and ECML services), including this line, became part of the Regional Railways operation – being branded as ScotRail. Following privatisation , passenger services upon the line were taken over by ScotRail , (part of National Express ), and are now operated by ScotRail with the track and signalling ...