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From October 2020 to March 2021 students from University of Glasgow 3rd Year Computer Science team CS21 have been working with the Open Transport Initiative as part of their Professional Software Development Honours project. Their agreed goal was to provide a proof of concept, illustrating how the Open Transport Initiative API specifications can be implemented …

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Intro: We are a team of third year Computing Science students at the University of Glasgow.  Project aims: To use the Open Transport API specifications to demonstrate the sharing of customer data between transport operators.  Timescale: 14th October 2020 – 31st March 2021  Names: Torrin McQueen, Tomas Mikus, Paul Traynor, Kameron Eralp, Jamie McKay  Approach: With Django, we created an example Operator lookup and model Operator site “Zebras”. The …

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Last week our Board approved Change Request CR005. This change extends the purchase.ticket entity in our “customer-account” API Open Standard to include three new “code” fields, making it easier to integrate UK Rail account data.The backwards-compatible change also to helps Modal in their recent Innovate UK & Geospatial Commission project to match real-time detection of …

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Everything The Open Transport Initiative publishes on our SwaggerHub API account is automatically covered by the Apache 2.0 Open Source license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html This is one of the most popular licenses for Open Standards and it gives anyone the ability to freely use, modify, distribute and sell software that uses our work. Also, because it explicitly …

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Open Transport Proposal for Change Number: Change 005: To: Customer-account API Name: Expansion of the “purchase.ticket” entity for additional fare data integration Breaking change? No Justification: Modal is a company who have built mobile app technology that detects a person’s public transport journey in real-time and use this to create rail Delay Repay functionality. As …

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The Open Transport Initiative is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the Open Data Institute (most commonly known as the ODI https://theodi.org) The Open Data Institute was founded in 2012 by the inventor of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt. Its mission is to work with companies and …

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Today Hayden, our Founder and Chair , gave a presentation to The Rail Innovation Group on their regular “Munch & Learn” webinar. The session explained the work & future aims of The Open Transport Initiative and was a combination of presentation (titled “Why all transport accounts need to make their data shareable”) and lively Q&A. …

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Back in September 2020 the Government published the report:“Next steps for Smart Data. Putting consumers and SMEs in control of their data and enabling innovation”. In this document it clearly stated the intention to use legislation to “mandate industry involvement in Smart Data initiatives across the economy”. This means that Parliament will make different sectors, …

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When starting our our work, most people we spoke with in both the transport & mobility sector (and the wider open & shared data ecosystem) were surprised to find that a central directory service for finding data sources did not already exist. The problem of a lack of a technical system-to-system look-up service across the …

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Every mature industry has some sort of central directory or look-up service (e.g. the Internet has IP addresses & DNS, telephone have exchanges & directories, the postal service has sorting offices & post offices and banks & financial services have branch / sort codes) with most of these now digitalised. However the transport and mobility …

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