Everything The Open Transport Initiative publishes on our SwaggerHub API account is automatically covered by the Apache 2.0 Open Source license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html This is one of the most popular licenses for Open Standards and it gives anyone the ability to freely use, modify, distribute and sell software that uses our work. Also, because it explicitly …
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Open Transport Proposal for Change Number: Change 005: To: Customer-account API Name: Expansion of the “purchase.ticket” entity for additional fare data integration Breaking change? No Justification: Modal is a company who have built mobile app technology that detects a person’s public transport journey in real-time and use this to create rail Delay Repay functionality. As …
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The Open Transport Initiative is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the Open Data Institute (most commonly known as the ODI https://theodi.org) The Open Data Institute was founded in 2012 by the inventor of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt. Its mission is to work with companies and …
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Today Hayden, our Founder and Chair , gave a presentation to The Rail Innovation Group on their regular “Munch & Learn” webinar. The session explained the work & future aims of The Open Transport Initiative and was a combination of presentation (titled “Why all transport accounts need to make their data shareable”) and lively Q&A. …
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Back in September 2020 the Government published the report:“Next steps for Smart Data. Putting consumers and SMEs in control of their data and enabling innovation”. In this document it clearly stated the intention to use legislation to “mandate industry involvement in Smart Data initiatives across the economy”. This means that Parliament will make different sectors, …
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When starting our our work, most people we spoke with in both the transport & mobility sector (and the wider open & shared data ecosystem) were surprised to find that a central directory service for finding data sources did not already exist. The problem of a lack of a technical system-to-system look-up service across the …
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Every mature industry has some sort of central directory or look-up service (e.g. the Internet has IP addresses & DNS, telephone have exchanges & directories, the postal service has sorting offices & post offices and banks & financial services have branch / sort codes) with most of these now digitalised. However the transport and mobility …
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Following various recent enquiries about the data that can be shared consistently between different transport and mobility accounts via our “customer-account” API specification, we thought we would explain each entity here in more detail Purchase:The purchase entity covers a product bought or agreed to be used. Such as a pre-paid ticket. e.g. an off-peak single …
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The ability to share smart data between many different transport and mobility accounts is a key aim of our organisation. In an earlier post, we considered the range of benefits of customers being easily able to join-up their data from many different transport providers and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platforms. One of these benefits, comes from them …
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Transport is currently responsible for around one-fifth of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This is demonstrated in this recent graph (based on 2018 data) from Our World in Data, which gives a clear comparison of travel modes by their carbon footprint. These figures are measured in the amount of greenhouse gases emitted per passenger kilometre …
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