A group of local authorities and bus operators began to meet regularly to discuss how to achieve this; and so RTIG was born.
The expanding and maturing market caused RTIG to reflect on its role, and in 2003 it determined to recreate itself as a subscription group - with the important step that the systems industry was to be a full and equal partner in its work.
The National RTI Strategy,[3] ratified in March 2007, establishes a framework for how industry stakeholders and government need to work together to deliver benefit to passengers.
In order to reflect the widening deployment of bus-related technologies, the 2006 annual survey was re-branded as the ‘RTIG Passenger Transport Technology Survey’ and included questions on services for disabled travellers – partly in response to new obligations on bus operators under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005.
Publicly available documents in the Library include: Members have access to a wider range of standards and guidelines, and to the outputs of RTIG workshops (see below).