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In previous posts we have mentioned the need for a centralised look-up service for all transport / mobility providers. This is needed (especially in the early stages of the Open Transport standard) to enforce data consistency between those who have adopted it. To achieve this, the Open Transport team have agreed that we need to …

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There is a great post about the Open Transport initiative from Moya of Ideal Interface on the Digit website this week.https://digit.fyi/open-transport-shaking-up-the-transport-sector/ The article leads with the line: “Open Transport is creating a standard way that transport customers can securely integrate their accounts together and share some transport data. “ It answers some very useful questions that …

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Open Transport Initiative launches New Standard for Transport and Mobility Interoperability “Open Transport aims to do for the transport sector what Open Banking has done for the Financial Services sector.” Today, International Standards Day (14th October) sees the launch of a new standard in the transport and mobility sector. The publication of a draft Open …

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Today in International Standards Day and we have issued a Press Release about the launch of our latest API specification. https://www.prfire.com/submission/open-transport-initiative-launches-new-standard-for-transport-and-mobility-interoperability-2/

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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