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The working days can also be used as the days of non-operation.

<ServicedOrganisationDayType>
  <DaysOfNonOperation>
    <WorkingDays>
      <ServicedOrganisationRef>Bournemouth_University</ServicedOrganisationRef>
    </WorkingDays>
  </DaysOfNonOperation>
</ServicedOrganisationDayType>

This states that the vehicle journey runs to the regular days except for during the organisation’s working days when it does not run. This is used for example for a school’s term holidays.

A common issue is where a service is shown to run a journey twice on school days and not at all on non-school days. This is caused by days of operation being mistakenly used for both journeys instead of days of non-operation.

Continue to the next article on Managing Journey Data: Service operating periods.