This week we have been busy migrating our Open APIs to a different account. This means that the URLs have changed, some contact information has changed and therefore we have incremented both versions for complete traceability and transparency: Old versions Operator APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/open-transport/operator-info/1.1.0 Customer APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/open-transport/customer-account/1.0.2 New versions Operator APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/opentransport/operator-info/1.1.1 Customer APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/opentransport/customer-account/1.0.3/ Notes: We will also soon …
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Open Transport is Smart Data Challenge Finalist
The Smart Data Challenge Prize was announced in January 2025 and has sought to find teams that can: Identify Smart Data use cases that utilise multiple datasets from sectors across the economy, and build prototypes, demonstrating their market feasibility and potential to deliver real-world benefits for consumers and businesses (pending implementation of Smart Data schemes).Smart …
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Smart Data 4 Transport Meeting – 1 April 2025
Context: The Smart Data 4 Transport meeting held on April 1, 2025, brought together key stakeholders from various sectors, including transport, data governance, and procurement. The discussion focused on the implementation and implications of Smart Data initiatives in the transport sector, particularly in relation to the ongoing Data Use and Access Bill and the Smart …
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Why is the Transport sector way behind on Smart Data?
The Smart Data roadmap (published 11 months ago by the previous UK Government) outlined the “Next steps to creating a Smart Data economy in the UK in banking, energy, finance, home buying, retail, telecommunications and transport“. It also identified the transport sector at the earliest stage of Smart Data Scheme Development: Identification So currently the …
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Smart Data 4 Transport – February meeting
Today was a further meeting of the “Smart Data 4 Transport” group, which launched back in December 2024. The topics of the group this month were: If you would like to be included in future meetings. please let us know:contact@opentransport.co.uk
Integrating Transport Customer Data
Today, our Founder Hayden Sutherland, presented the latest developments in Smart Data for the Transport & Mobility sector during a webinar titled “Enhancing transport integration through data-driven analysis”. This webinar, supported by SYSTRA and delivered by Landor LINKS Live!, explored the contribution of smart data, national pricing and integrating transport and non-transport policy in delivering …
What next for Transport & Smart Data?
The Transport Sector has made customer account data sharing difficult. There are now hundreds of different online accounts across the sector (Bus, Rail, Taxi, Micro-Mobility, Air, etc.), meaning each customer must work hard to access all their own transport & mobility data.As an example, just to consolidate their transport expenses, customers need to log in …
UK Government launches Smart Data Challenge Prize
This week sees the announcement of the Smart Data Challenge Prize. This is a £600,000 pot funded by the Department of Business and Trade, designed to identify and develop Smart Data use cases across the economy.“The Prize will give up to ten selected innovators the opportunity to prototype Smart Data solutions with high potential impact …
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Where does Smart Data sit on the Data Spectrum?
Several years back we worked with MaaS Scotland (the umbrella organisation for Mobility-as-a-Service [MaaS] activities in Scotland) on the creation of The Data Spectrum for Transport & Mobility. This diagram was a small (but significant) step forward in the data maturity of the sector. In that it adopted the original work of The Open Data Institute …
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Smart Data 4 Transport group launches
In October this year several organisations were invited to a Smart Transport Data Roundtable in Leeds organised by Intelligent Transport Systems UK (ITS UK), the industry body for transport technology, and the Open Data Institute (ODI). At this Roundtable the role of smart data in a transport context was discussed, learnings from other industries where …
Open Transport - Transport & Mobility Data Interoperability 