Bus Services at UWE, Frenchay

Bus service information provided by the Information Systems School of CEMS.

Information Sources

Departure Board	Display the departure board showing the next 12 departures. This display refreshes every minute.	departures
Service Board	Display the service board showing the next departure on all services. This display also refreshes every minute. This board is currently displayed on the CEMS faculty monitors.	services
SMS Service	Text the service required from your mobile phone. The system will text back the next 2 departures on the requested service	Text bus then a space and then the service name (shown in the table below) to 07624803759. Case is irrelevant.
WAP	Query the system using WAP from your WAP-enabled mobile phone using URL: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/bus/waprequest.wml broken :-(

Bus Services included

Provider	Service name	Link to full Timetable	Destination	Last Updated	Check before
First	70	First	Centre	07-sept-2006	19-12-2006
	99	First	Centre via Blackboy Hill	07-sept-2006	19-12-2006
	x84	First	Centre via M32	07-sept-2006	19-12-2006
UWE	Flyer	Timetable	Campus	07-sept-2006	19-12-2006
	Night Flyer ??		St. Matthias, Rackhay	20-sept-2005
	Shuttle (suspended)	Timetable	Rackhay	20-sept-2005
South Gloucestershire Bus & Coach	312	See Travel Line SW	Thornbury – Downend	07-sept-2006
	318	See Travel Line SW	Keynsham -- Cribbs Causeway	07-sept-2006
	319	See Travel Line SW	Bath -- Cribbs Causeway	07-sept-2006
	517	See Travel Line SW	Emerson Green - Avonmouth	07-sept-2006
	518	See Travel Line SW	Longwell Green -- Shirehampton	07-sept-2006
	581	See Travel Line SW	Longwell Green – Chipping Sodbury	07-sept-2006
	680	See Travel Line SW	Iron Acton - Filton	07-sept-2006

See also Traveline South West

Further information

The staff and students of the Information Systems School of the CEMS Faculty have developed this experimental service to provide information on all bus services serving UWE Frenchay campus. The aim is to add interactive and dynamic sources to existing static paper or web sources.

Information is based on published timetables. Timetables cover term-time, holiday timetables,week-day and Sat-Sun timetables.

This service is also a demonstration of the kinds of information system being build by students in the Information System School, using PHP and MySQL. See the documentation for further technical information. A background paper on Travel information systems generally is here.

The CEMS faculty pays for the reply message in the SMS service. Sponsership would be very welcome to help defray this cost.

Contact Chris Wallace in CEMS with any queries or comments on this information service. There is a log of outstanding bugs, issues and suggested improvements. Please contact the service providers in all issues relating to the quality and frequency of service!

Last updated 21 September 2006-05-23