A Public Transport Authority is a local authority or government authority that runs public transport services in a region. A PTA decides the schedules and manages the customer experience, including retailing the ticket to the passenger. Where a UK network is Franchised, as it is in London (under Transport for London) and Manchester (under Transport …

A Public Transport Operator is a business that runs public transport services. They operate commercially, charging the customer directly for a ticket to travel for their services. Or they run contracted services for a PTA (Public Transport Authority). In this case, the PTA usually decides the schedules and manages the customer experience, including retailing the …

The powers of the Equality Act 2010 allow the government to make regulations requiring all new land-based public transport vehicles (trains, taxis, buses and coaches) to be accessible to disabled people, including those who need to remain in wheelchairs. The regulations that govern access to buses and coaches are known as PSVAR. PSVAR has been applied to all …

PSD2 is a European regulation for electronic payment services. It seeks to make payments more secure in Europe, boost innovation and help banking services adapt to new technologies.

The maximum number of buses required to keep a service (or groups of services where they share vehicles) operating correctly. This can usually be calculated through careful observation of the timetable; a service that runs every 15 minutes and takes 40 minutes from end-to-end would usually have a Peak Vehicle Requirement of six vehicles (with …

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. The name PHP is a recursive acronym, originally derived from Personal Home Page Tools, but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

Bike share can be broadly defined as any setting where bicycles are pooled for multiple users. Models include Public Bike Share (PBS) – self-service on-street docked or dockless stations – workplace pool bikes, train/bus station hubs, loans, lockers and peer to peer sharing. PBS schemes often make their bike and bay/dock locations available as a public API. …

Offers retailers online services for accepting electronic payments by a variety of methods including credit card, bank-based payments such as direct debit, bank transfer, and real-time bank transfer based on online banking.

PCI is an industry standard designed to make it safer to use credit cards online by making sure that business collecting credit card data transmit and store it securely.