When the trains are consistently late, the train company must refund a portion of the money that rail ticket holders pay. If the data was open, this process wou

When the trains are consistently late, the train company must refund a portion of the money that rail ticket holders pay. If the data was open, this process would become automated and cost the train companies lots of money. ... and it would therefore work, as presumably intended, as a meaningful incentive. Whatever licences the Government gives rail-related bodies ought to make free public data access a requirement.