We are industry advocates for the adoption and use of Smart Data – transport & mobility customer account data that is shared with permissions – and believe that a truly interoperable transport ecosystem is only possible if a customer’s mobility data is portable too. We therefore believe that the following key principles should underpin any …
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In our efforts to create Open Standards for transport & mobility account data interoperability, The Open Transport Initiative has obtained input from 30+ different: transport providers, MaaS platforms, suppliers and specialists across Europe. This has resulted in us defining 16 modes of transportation and conveyance with the following descriptions & examples: We believe that this …
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In a recent article initially posted on Linkedin, Hayden Sutherland, the Founder and Chair of The Open Transport Initiative, proposed the concept that transport & mobility accounts could become obsolete, as FinTech accounts are the more logical place for handling the financial processing of transport data. Titled “Could FinTech kill the transport & mobility account?” …
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The transport and mobility sector has a fundamental role in tackling climate change. As the second largest emitter of Greenhouse gasses (mainly CO2) it has a major responsibility to protect our planet. Therefore The Open Transport Initiative was incredibly proud to have been invited to present our updated “Map of Transport & Mobility Modes” at …
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If you are a delegate or participating at COP26 today, you can see a session run by Hayden Sutherland, our Founder & Chair. This session called “What is Transport” is part of the Future of Transport event, in the KTN Space & Geospatial Virtual Pavilion for COP26. https://ktn-uk.org/events/space-geospatial-virtual-pavilion/ During this interactive session Hayden will present …
Organisations in every sector must abide by some form of rules and regulations. Whether these are Health & Safety, employment, competition, taxation or just the legal constraints of existing in a modern civilised society… every one of them is governed in some way to protect their customers, staff or the wider economy. So unsurprisingly there are …
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The UK Geospatial Commission has recently published a report titled “Positioning the UK in the fast lane, Location data opportunities for better UK transport”https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/positioning-the-uk-in-the-fast-lane-location-data-opportunities-for-better-uk-transport This report highlights key common themes and crosscutting challenges, based on six transport use cases, where geospatial product and services could unlock greatest benefit. Treating mobility as an interconnected system:We will …
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Some readers of this blog may be aware that we have spent some some back in 2019 defining the different modes of transport & mobility. These also have been mapped / compared to both the Mobility Data Specification (MDS) and General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS). Our first attempt at defining our own mode classifications aligned …
We have some great news to share… the launch of our Central Mobility Operator Directory. Here’s lead developer David O’Neill explaining the project in more detail… Over the last 6 weeks, I have been working in partnership with the Open Transport Initiative to produce a live operator directory, in line with the operator-info API specificationThe …
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Released at the same time as the “customer account” API specification in early 2020, our “central operator” Open Standard became the first (and only) look-up specification to enable shared data (AKA smart data) sources to be found across all modes of transport within an entire mobility ecosystem. Subsequently, after feedback from various organisations, we updated …
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Open Transport - Transport & Mobility Data Interoperability 