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Covid-19 has changed the working environment for many people and has definitely changed their approach to spending. Often this is reflected in the corporate world, with a more cautious approach to investment and innovation, as organisations play safe during uncertainty. This topic is something we have been discussing at the Open Transport Initiative. We have […]

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) needs data for it to work. More specifically it needs data about the transportation purchases and usage of its customers. Therefore having access to a broader and more comprehensive set of mobility data over a decent period of time (and over all modes of transportation) provides a better understanding of the different transportation […]

One (and perhaps the foremost) aim of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is to put the travelling customer at the core of the service and offer them tailor-made mobility solutions based on their specific needs. 2 very different approaches:To do this effectively MaaS requires one of two approaches to customer data: An aggregated approach:The customer needs to have […]

Open Transport is an initiative that has released two different Open Standards for transport and mobility account interoperability. But one of the most common questions we get asked is about whether our work is really free or not. Why standards?Standards are needed with technology, to ensure that more than one developer or vendor can work […]

Today we are announcing a update of our “operator-info” API specification to version 1.1.0 This important update to our original Open Standard published in January now incorporates three specific change requests CR001The addition of another “mode”, that of “016 – suspended cable car”. Also now reflected in our Mode API reference implementation at https://open-transport.azure-api.net/mode CR002Change […]

This week, two of our board members (Marcus and Hayden) presented to the Open Banking World Congress on the context, history and future of Open Transport. In a 40 minutes session called “Advancing Towards Open Transport” they explained the use cases and benefits of an Open Standards for mobility account interoperability. Although the Open Banking […]

When we set-out to create the Open Transport standard, we had in our minds the problem that many transportation customers have: Multiple online / self-service accounts Typically one for each transport provider and another for each Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform. Multi-modal journeysThose commuting, business and pleasure trips that involve more than one mode of transportation. Limited […]

Today we are announcing a update of our “customer-account” API specification to version 1.0.1 This small-but-important update from our original Open Standard is backwards compatible with v1.0 , with the addition of an “account-balance” for each purchase / product. Therefore making the standard more useful for the interoperability of those accounts that store a monetary […]

We have been asked by several organisations to publish a table of mode definitions, as used in our Open Standard: ID Mode  Description 001 on foot  where the person is a pedestrian (used for complete end-to-end journey mapping) 002 cycle includes both human-powered pedal cycle and ebike, typically rented or shared but also possibly privately […]

As part of our standards work, we quickly realised that we needed to centralise around a common definition of the “mode” of transport. Other definitions of the “method of conveyance” that were identified during the evolution of the standard we created were either too restrictive (e.g. just covering public transit) or proprietary (and therefore not […]