Real-time bus information

You can check the predicted departure times for your bus before you leave your home or office by searching for your nearest stop on the Oxontime website or via the Oxontime SMS text service.

Oxontime predictions are updated every 30 seconds giving you live information to help plan your journey.

Which buses does it include?

• The entire fleet of Oxford Bus Company vehicles, including the branded Park and Ride services, the BrookesBus services, X90 coaches to London and the airline coaches to Heathrow and Gatwick Airports
• Most Stagecoach bus services into Oxford including The Oxford Tube coach service to London and the (non-‘Park & Ride’ branded) service between Water Eaton and the Hospitals (John Radcliffe, Nuffield, Churchill, Manor)
• Many of the Thames Travel inter-urban services to the Oxford Science Park, Wallingford, Watlington, Abingdon, Didcot, Harwell IBC, Milton Park, and Wantage
• All Arriva The Shires and Essex services that pass into Oxfordshire, notably the 280 Aylesbury service, the Wycombe to Reading services (via Henley on Thames) and the Town Circular services in Thame
• Grayline and Heyfordian Bicester Town services
• Heyfordian services to Denton & The Miltons, and Bicester to Oxford via the villages.

A more comprehensive list can be found at the Oxontime website

Bus stop displays

Passengers benefit from on street signs at more than 200 bus stops in Oxford and the surrounding towns and villages, displaying how many minutes until the next bus arrives. Bus operators are responsible for the timetable data used by the system to generate these predictions.  

There are also displays at key interchange sites such as the Park and Ride car parks.

Other benefits

The bus operators get the benefit of automatic vehicle tracking from the same on-board equipment used to provide Oxontime data.

This enables them to be more effective in managing their fleets and help them avoid the bunching of buses on busy routes - measures to help with the provision of better bus services for the passengers of Oxfordshire. We also use the Oxontime equipment to provide traffic-light priority for buses at key road-junctions.

Who set this up?

Oxontime Real-Time Information (RTI) system is a working partnership between Oxfordshire County Council, The Oxford Bus Company, Stagecoach in Oxfordshire and Thames Travel and our contractor Cloud Amber. Each bus company has made significant investment in on-bus tracking equipment and contributes to ongoing maintenance costs.

Contact us

For more information on this project why not visit the Oxontime website, or if you have comments or suggestions, please email contact@oxontime.com or call Chris Spry on 01865 815711.