Clearer information for School Days Only services

[iMarkeh]

There are currently a number of services which only operate on school days and the system seems to dislike them. Scotland at the minute is rife with them as their schools have broken up.

Basically if you go to the service it says no information. No past date, no future date. Just a calendar which is meaningless if you don't know when the next day of operation is. If you go to the URL or calendar though and pick a date in September, you can see the service is back operational again and it gives a timetable.
This is one example: https://bustimes.org/services/800-bettyhill-melvich-or-thurso No information found at all. If you select the calendar to the 24th August onwards though, boom you have details on the service.

Could there be a better way of displaying this information? Even within Stagecoach, all of their data comes from one place, and checking the xml files doesn't seem to show anything up which I can't work out at all how it works it out. Heres some examples to show you what I mean.
Stagecoach MCSL, all of their Merseyside schools show 'Merseytravel School Days only' and the 26B shows 'Upton High School Days'. I've checked the XML file and there is nothing in there which says 'Upton High School Days' so that's a bit odd.
Stagecoach Highlands though which looks like their xml files are set up the same way, they just show blank such as below. There are plenty of Stagecoach Highlands examples though.
https://bustimes.org/services/152-portree-square-broadford-hospital-road-end

[Joshua Goodwin]

Fixed it so the 800 now shows the next day of operation (15 August), thanks for pointing that out

The 26B has

  <ServicedOrganisations>
    <ServicedOrganisation>
      <OrganisationCode>UptonHS</OrganisationCode>
      <Name>Upton High School</Name>
    </ServicedOrganisation>
  </ServicedOrganisations>

        <ServicedOrganisationDayType>
          <DaysOfOperation>
            <WorkingDays>
              <ServicedOrganisationRef>UptonHS</ServicedOrganisationRef>
            </WorkingDays>
          </DaysOfOperation>
        </ServicedOrganisationDayType>

and I add "days only" to the name of the organisation. (Apparently there are a lot of schools in Scotland named things like "QE0 : Cif-SM5-BAY-20200810_20230621_201305.cif")

The highland 152 consists of two services (152a and 152b) with different timetables on different days of the week so I consider it too complicated, maybe I can fix that

[iMarkeh]

It wasn't just route 800 but hopefully it fixed the rest of the routes which were having that issue. Stagecoach routes with this aren't rectified though. Such as the Highland 152, it doesn't jump to the next timetable date, it stays on todays date. Jump the calendar date to 15th August onwards though, you get the full timetable.

Makes sense now why some of the routes make it work and show '[school] days only' and others don't. Yes, there are a number of routes where I have seen random codes, it's really not helpful for passengers. Seems to be something which links back to Traveline Scotland. (Amazing how most of the issues with transport information link back to Traveline)

Hopefully the issues can be rectified in some way to give passengers better information.