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There are many terms relating to data being used in the transport and mobility industry right now, with individuals confusing or mixing them up. This has resulted in stakeholders and external observers misunderstanding the industry’s level of data maturity and its commitment to certain standards and practices. In other words, transport and mobility organisations are […]

Why does the transport and mobility industry make it so difficult for the travelling customer to be in control of their data? There are dozens & dozens of different online accounts – one for each Transport Provider and MaaS Platform. Customers have to log into every account to get a complete view of all their […]

This year the MaaS Scotland annual conference is being held as a virtual / online event taking place over two days: 30 September and 1 October 2020. On Day 1 (30 Sept 2020) there will be a Technical Session from 14:00 – 15:15 on the topic of Data and Security, including a presentation and participation […]

On 9th September 2020 the UK Government published its response to the Smart Data Review conducted in 2019. The report, titled “Next steps for Smart Data. Putting consumers and SMEs in control of their data and enabling innovation” not only cites the success of Open Banking, with the UK leading the way, it also states […]

There’s a gold rush currently underway in the Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) market, as the different providers of MaaS platform vendors look to sign-up cities and regions to use their products rather than those of their competition. However, for those living, working or travelling near the intersection of two or more geographically different transport regions, this may […]

Details of the 10th Annual ScotlandIS Digital Technology awards has been released today. So we are please to announce that Hayden Sutherland, our Founder & Chair, has been shortlisted in the category of “Unsung Hero Award” for his work on The Open Transport Initiative. The judging panel included experts, champions, and influencers from across the […]

There are various parties who would benefit from the adoption of an Open Standard for transport account integration. Firstly, the customer. Currently, there is no way for an individual to link their online accounts across the different transport providers. As an example, there are 26 different train operators in the UK alone, most with their […]

As part of the Open Transport Initiative’s work to create our centralised Operator-Info API specification, we also had to create a definition of transport and mobility modes. Yes, there are other definitions for some modes of transport in different mobility specifications. However none of them covered all the modes of transport a modern mobility ecosystem […]

We have been asked to provide some example scenarios in which an API designed to our Centralised Operator API Open Standard specification could be used. Here are a couple: Example Use Case 1A transport authority or agency creates an innovation programme and need to provide a definitive list and URLs of all data sources that […]

Back at the beginning of 2020, The Open Transport Initiative launched two different API designs as Open Standards. The first was our Customer-account API: A standard way to facilitate peer-to-peer transport data. This gained a lot of attention and is currently the focus of our drive towards transport data sharing and account interoperability. The second […]