A person’s journey (e.g. making their regular commute to work) does not start and end when they board and get off a bus or train. For most travellers there is also additional travel taking place (e.g. when they leave the house to get to the stop or station and when they continie their onwards journey …
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We have been asked what our timescales are around delivering an Open Standard, so we thought we would be completely transparent about our aims here. Note: The current work to create both API specifications (‘customer-account’ and ‘operator-info’) are the intellectual property of Ideal Interface. This will change when version 1.0 of the Open Standard is …
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We are incredibly proud to announce that Open Transport has made the 2020 Transport Ticketing Global Awards Shortlist. Our work, in creating the first open API specification for transport account interoperability, is in the category of Ticketing Technology of the Year. The winners will be announced at the Transport Ticketing Gala Dinner & Awards ceremony …
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Thursday 5th December saw Hayden Sutherland present the Open Transport work to a number of Maas Scotland members and other interested parties. This was part of an event called “Data: Fuelling the transport technology revolution” The purpose of the Open Transport session in the afternoon was to get a wider peer of what has been …
Today members of the Open Transport initiative attended World Rail Festival in Amsterdam . The World Rail Festival is a global event where over 900 attendees come to meet and discuss commercial strategy, digital transformation, next generation ticketing, customer experience, revenue management, MaaS and smart mobility, stations, connectivity, real time information in the rail, bus …
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Today (3 December 2019), Hayden presented the work of the Open Transport initiative to the Ticketing Card Forum (TCF) in London run by Smartex. At the event, he explained how Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is maturing as a concept, that transport start-ups are growin in number & market share and that Maas platforms across cities and regions …
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Open Transport is based upon the idea that that different transport and mobility accounts owned by the same individual can be integrated together in a federated manner. This means that the Transport Provider can still have their own customer account and that is does not need to be merged up into one super account e.g. …
The Open Transport standard for customer account interoperability facilitates the integration of different transport accounts owned by the same individual. Once accounts are linked, the standard allows a person to view all purchases, usage and even concessions (e.g. discounts and railcards) in another account. This works in the same way that Open Banking does for …
Whilst receiving feedback about our evolving customer account API specification, we have also had some people ask us how the Open Transport standard for secure account integration works with ITSO. Therefore we thought this post should clarify things… Open TransportThe Open Transport standard for customer account interoperability facilitates the integration of different transport operator accounts …
The Open Transport initiative currently have two different API specifications our for wider peer review: 1. Customer-accountThis is a standard for the interoperability of transport account data. The current data types described are: Purchase, Usage & Concession 2. Operator-infoThis is a standard for a central look-up service for all transport /mobility. Its main purpose is …
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Open Transport - Transport & Mobility Data Interoperability 