About this app

We recognise that catching a bus in rural mid Wales may not be your first your first travel choice. This may be due in part to the lack of awareness of bus services in the area, or a lack of confidence that the bus you are waiting for is actually coming and is coming on time. So, in order to try and remove these potential barriers and to offer bus passenger additional reassurances, we have developed Bwsiti. Bwsiti is a local bus service journey planner for Powys in Mid Wales and a bit more.

Not only will Bwsiti plan your journey, it gives you actual live bus locations to give you the reassurance that the bus you have planned to catch is on its way and what time (predicted and actual) it will be at your stop. This is all backed up with the ability to view timetable content even when offline where the mid Wales 3G signal is not alway the strongest! There is of course a fully interactive route map too.

You can see and follow the bus you are waiting for in actual time on the interactive map which will show you your location and next stop if you're not sure where to get off and you can save your favoutite journeys.

MAIN FEATURES

Fully informed travel decisions for passengers wherever and whenever they want, potentially reducing waiting time, increasing convenience and encouraging greater use of transport services. Where is my bus? Where is the nearest stop? When will it arrive?

Live or scheduled bus times for every stop in Powys – see coverage below.
Directions to your nearest bus stops.

Offline capability and regular journey saved for quick reference. Favourite the bus stops and journeys you take regularly.

Anonymised data on all passenger journeys and bus routes that will capture travel request to help build our knowledge of your transport need to assist us plan more appropriate services.

COVERAGE

This is the first phase of the roll which will provide the live tracking facility on the majority of local bus services operating in the mid and north of Powys, with the remainder of the county being covered by the end of the summer 2016. However, if there is no live tracking on certain bus routes, we will still show predicted locations and arrival times for your stop, so you should never be without the bus timetable!

PLEASE NOTE:

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

This app can send anonymous usage stats and crash reports to us so that we can improve it; no personally identifiable information is collected or transmitted, but you can opt out of this at any time via the app's settings page.

New features

- General Improvements

App Permissions

Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to RW to diagnostic resources.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to use location features in hardware, such as the geofencing api.
Allows an application to open, close, or disable the status bar and its icons.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows access to the vibrator.