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Following a review and feedback from transport industry representatives we have updated our API Specification to version 0.9. This release, in the opinion of the Open Transport initiative members, is now ready for wider peer review. A vital step in it becoming an Open Standard for transport and mobility account interoperability. https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/open-transport/customer-account/0.9

We’ve adopted a new logo (and colours) to help with our identity and communications. The design represents an obvious technology connection and a subtle transport one too (square has a round ‘tunnel’ and the rectangular a dotted line ‘road / rail’ association).

Open Transport now has a Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-transport-initiative/ Although this blog is the main method of communicating what we are doing on a day-to-day basis with the creation and adoption of the Open Standard for transport account interoperability, the Linkedin page is also useful for communications (and for for building the profile of this initiative).

Every industry is seemingly being disrupted right now. It seems as if there is almost an inevitability about it, regardless of whether this disruption is commercially viable or not. And disruptive start-ups have to start somewhere, typically by taking revenue or customers away from more established brands. Meaning that market fragmentation is an almost inevitable …

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The last couple of weeks have seen a flurry of activity within the Open Transport group. Leading to the launch of an updated version of the API specification: v0.8.1 has now been published to Swaggerhub:https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/open-transport/customer-account/0.0.8.1#/ This version has now been distributed out to a wider group of transport industry peers for their feedback and thoughts.

In an earlier post, we showed our roadmap of intended functionality, broken into 3 phases. Since then we have discussed the possibility of adding a third data entity to the first phase: concessions (in addition to tickets and journeys). Concessions, also called travelcards/railcards or entitlements provide a discount across one or mode modes of transport …

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The way that people now travel in rural areas, suburbs and cities has changed (and will change further and more quickly) as customer needs have evolved and mobile technologies have gained increasing acceptance. Transportation users have become more used to mixing modes that combine mass transit such as rail, subway and bus services with more …

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In earlier posted we have explained how complete account aggregation (across all transport modes, private and public) is not possible, especially in a fragmented and deregulated environment. And how federated account integrations compliment the an aggregated Mobility-as-a-Service model. This can be explained further by turning the typical MaaS scheme diagram on its head and placing …

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We have previously explained in an earlier blog post how the typical diagram of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) needs to be extended to show the customer accounts of the individual transport providers. But this situation, made more complex in a fragmented transport environment, means that customer, ticket & journey information data is locked away in each respective …

Continue reading “Federated accounts provide an alternative approach to transport interoperability”

It’s not often that transport & mobility looks too far beyond the comfort and confines of our own industry for inspiration. But there’s a recent revolution going on in the Financial Services industry that has been transformative for the customer (and consequently has a serious impact on the providers). In the last year and a …

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