Facts and figures
| Publisher: | Department for Transport |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Published date: | 29 June 2007 |
| Mode/topic: | Public transport |
Transport Direct has been designed to handle:
- 50 million visits to the portal each year
- Over 700,000 ticketing requests per year
- 10 million web page updates each week
- 1.5 million journeys planned each week
Transport Direct brings together travel information from over 40 different sources each week in one place and includes travel information on:
- Over 330,000 bus stops (this number is regularly increasing as new bus stops are added to the database)
- Over 2500 train stations
- Over 3 million nodes contained in the road data
- Over 27 million addresses
The technology behind Transport Direct
- 200 – 300 MB of rail data
- 300 GB map data
- 140 MB air data
- 35 servers host all of the content available via Transport Direct
Hundreds of internet hyperlinks already point to Transport Direct, on websites belonging to such organisations as:
- BBC
- Visit Britain
- Wembley Stadium
- Find A Property
- Sadler's Wells theatre


















