In the Startup Coalition’s recent report, “License to Share: Maximising the value of data in the UK’s transport sector,” the Open Transport Initiative is highlighted as a key industry-led effort to standardize data sharing within the transport sector.
This paper, which explores how the Government can bring Smart Data to life in the UK, outlines our efforts in transport & mobility account data standardization and interoperability.
It specifically mentions our work in creating a common and open API specification for data exchange between different transport operators, local authorities, and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) providers.
It also outlines the next Steps for an Open Transport Scheme as:
“Open Transport is an aspirational goal – but a significant amount of work would be required to identify the exact data sets, and data owners, required to make the scheme a success. Therefore, a first step would be for the Government to launch a call for evidence, focused on train ticketing.”
Open Transport - Transport & Mobility Data Interoperability 