For the last few years, departments within the UK Government have been using the term ‘Smart Data’ to refer to the secure sharing of customer data with named / authorised third-party providers (TPPs), upon the customer’s request. The concept started with Open Banking, but a wider adoption of Smart Data is now being implemented, starting …
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Shared and Decentralised Transport & Mobility Data
Our work on creating and managing the only customer account data sharing standard for transport & mobility (otherwise known as the Open Banking standard for transport) enables a customer’s mobility data to be shared with other Third Party Providers (TPP) via an Open Standard API: https://opentransport.co.uk/open-standard/ This integration of data is known as Smart Data …
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Why “good enough” data sharing practices are not good enough
The UK Transport & mobility sector seems to have settled on a “good enough” approach to data sharing and interoperability. This amounts to a reverse tragedy of the commons scenario across the sector, where every transport provider or authority deliberately under-invests in their own data sharing technology capabilities, as they see no point working for …
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Open Transport presents at OpenX
Today, our Founder Hayden Sutherland was invited to present at the inaugural OpenX Congress (https://www.openxcongress.com) run by https://openfuture.world – This was a 2 day event that covered the evolution from Open Banking to Cross-sector data sharing ecosystems. During his presentation, Hayden explained about the complexities and intricacies of the fragmented UK transport & mobility sector …
CountEmissions EU creates a path to Net Zero for Transport & Mobility
The “CountEmissions EU” is an initiative that will offer a framework for calculating transport and logistics-related door-to door greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a consistent way, regardless of transport mode, sector or country of operation. The general objective of this initiative is to incentivise the reduction of emissions from transport and logistics,through: establishing a level …
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MaaS Account Roaming Needs Data Sharing Standards
Personal Account Roaming for MaaS is the ability to use one user account across multiple Mobility-as-a-Service offerings. It is the concept (similar to cellular phone roaming) that’s been proposed to solve the problem caused by different MaaS platforms being used across the same country, region or ecosystem. It relies upon a user having their personal …
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If messaging apps are being made interoperable, why not transport accounts?
The European Union has announced plans for a new Digital Markets Act (DMA) that could force changes at the big technology companies and legislate for them to make their messaging apps talk to each other. Announced back at the end of March the DMA plans to ban certain practices by these “gatekeeper” companies (such as …
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What Data Sharing is needed for MaaS?
The implementation and ongoing governance of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) needs to provide clear and firm guidance on what and how data is shared across a transport ecosystem. But data sharing, the specific sharing of data from the middle of The Transport & Mobility Data Spectrum (therefore not Open Data and not Closed Data) actually covers a …
Shared mobility needs shared data
Newer modes of transport such as ebikes & escooters and more modern Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) schemes must be accessible and usable to as many different people as possible to fulfil their potential. But what about the data these new mobility services create? Is this data findable? Is this data accessible? Is the data in each of …
Public transport & transit needs data interoperability
Public transport and transit providers have been trapped in walled gardens of data and technology. In short they are held captive by the very vendors who build their systems for them, but rely on closed and proprietary standards & architectures, rather than open and flexible ones. These monopolistic practices stifle competition and innovation, both by …
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Open Transport - Transport & Mobility Data Interoperability 