REVEALING STATISTICS

摘要

The Bus Archive is as keen to preserve the timetables of 2020 as those of 1920. That has been a challenge as they have changed so rapidly and as paper timetables disappeared completely, electronic versions had to be captured in the moment. Our volunteers have logged over 25,000 changes announced by operators and local authorities in the six months from mid-March to September, as well as downloading the weekly Traveline National Dataset (TNDS). This valuable resource will become more important for future researchers as the Covid pandemic recedes into history. As an electronic repository, it also lends itself to analysis and comparison. What better way to demonstrate the richness of this data than in graphs of how bus services changed during the lockdown?