NaPTAN is a shy dataset. If you’ve ever used a mobile journey planning app, you’ve probably used NaPTAN, most likely without knowing! NaPTAN, the acronym for National Public Transport Access Nodes, is a national database that contains a unique entry …
DfT’s Rail Knowledge Management Team recently approached the Lab for help with a problem: new DfT employees needed to understand the complexities of the rail system.
...‘junk text’ of no value to the analysis (for example signatures, virus scanning text). We spent a lot of time building a machine learning algorithm to solve this issue. It...
...put HALF a Mini car at top of the 'Nuneaton nipple' - but why?” Coventry Live “Drivers are angry at queues of 'more than two hours' to get out of...
Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash One of the great things about working at the Department for Transport (DfT) is that it’s a really outward-facing department. During my 3 years...
...be top of their priority list, there are frustrations with the existing process. This suggests opportunities to reduce the burden, even if we can’t remove it completely. The website that...
...has just passed its first GDS service assessment. It’s been a fantastic collaborative approach, and for me shows the value of Architecture. It’s been a great start to my tenure...
I've been working with DfT Lab on a four week project looking at innovative methods of getting traffic data.
The Department for Transport receives around 70,000 bits of correspondence a year of various types, usually requiring a response.
My name is Gemma Currie and I’m an apprentice on the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme.
I’m Alan Rider, Delivery Manager for the Department for Transport End User Compute Discovery.