Transport trackers have gone live in the city of Edinburgh across hundreds of travel stops in the capital city.

The new on-street bus tracking system will display real-time travel information – there are 3222 across the city, as well as 42 signs in Midlothian and six in West Lothian.

The travel stops will integrate open access to Edinburgh Travel Tracker API, allowing developers and third parties to use data from the displays for their own apps and services, with  Edinburgh City Council monitoring and fine-tuning the service to keep it accurate and up to date.

The displays will offer live departure information and will soon offer details of diverted routes and service disruptions for multiple transport operators, including train and air travel at key locations.

A further 100 signs will be installed at new locations across Edinburgh and screens will continue to be connected across South East Scotland, combining efforts to make travel throughout the region consistent.

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“We’ve been planning to roll out our new travel trackers for some time so I’m really pleased to have the displays up and running,” councillor Stephen Jenkinson, Edinburgh’s transport and environment convener, said.

“It has been a complex exercise to integrate all our systems, and we have needed to go through a process of testing and developing fixes, but we’re confident we now have a strong system in place. This is real-time data that will make journeys easier to plan for all passengers.”

The screens, as well as their open API element, hope to make travel easier and travel information more accurate for commuters.