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Research amp InnovationAPI amp Platform
Business Strategy amp Digital TransformationNew Usages Connected Business amp Mobility
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Part 2 The Technology Innovations Enabling The Rise of Smart Mobility
William El Kaim ndash March 2015
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Planbull Smart City Hungry For Open Data bull Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility bull Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols bull Mapping The World bull Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines bull Transit Applications bull From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner bull Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner bull The Age Of Platforms
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Smart City Hungry For Open Data
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Singapore Live
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Smart City based on data hellip
Source Disit 5
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httpservicemapdisitorgWebAppGrafomappajsp
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Smart City Seoulbull Seoul South Korea has equipped its taxis and buses with GPS
transmitters and used data from the movement of these vehicles to monitor traffic flows and optimize traffic lights speed limits and public transportation schedules often in real-time
bull The city further combines this vehicle data with smart transit-card data (more recently NFC-enabled smartphone wallet data) to observe the movement of people through the cityrsquos subways buses and taxis and ensure both adequate capacity in the transportation system and adjacent infrastructure and services like housing retail and policing
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
Source ProgrammableWeb 9
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
Source ProgrammableWeb 18
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Planbull Smart City Hungry For Open Data bull Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility bull Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols bull Mapping The World bull Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines bull Transit Applications bull From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner bull Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner bull The Age Of Platforms
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Smart City Hungry For Open Data
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Singapore Live
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Smart City based on data hellip
Source Disit 5
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sup2
httpservicemapdisitorgWebAppGrafomappajsp
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Smart City Seoulbull Seoul South Korea has equipped its taxis and buses with GPS
transmitters and used data from the movement of these vehicles to monitor traffic flows and optimize traffic lights speed limits and public transportation schedules often in real-time
bull The city further combines this vehicle data with smart transit-card data (more recently NFC-enabled smartphone wallet data) to observe the movement of people through the cityrsquos subways buses and taxis and ensure both adequate capacity in the transportation system and adjacent infrastructure and services like housing retail and policing
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
Source Pandodaily 8
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Smart City Hungry For Open Data
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Singapore Live
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Smart City based on data hellip
Source Disit 5
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sup2
httpservicemapdisitorgWebAppGrafomappajsp
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Smart City Seoulbull Seoul South Korea has equipped its taxis and buses with GPS
transmitters and used data from the movement of these vehicles to monitor traffic flows and optimize traffic lights speed limits and public transportation schedules often in real-time
bull The city further combines this vehicle data with smart transit-card data (more recently NFC-enabled smartphone wallet data) to observe the movement of people through the cityrsquos subways buses and taxis and ensure both adequate capacity in the transportation system and adjacent infrastructure and services like housing retail and policing
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Singapore Live
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Smart City based on data hellip
Source Disit 5
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sup2
httpservicemapdisitorgWebAppGrafomappajsp
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Smart City Seoulbull Seoul South Korea has equipped its taxis and buses with GPS
transmitters and used data from the movement of these vehicles to monitor traffic flows and optimize traffic lights speed limits and public transportation schedules often in real-time
bull The city further combines this vehicle data with smart transit-card data (more recently NFC-enabled smartphone wallet data) to observe the movement of people through the cityrsquos subways buses and taxis and ensure both adequate capacity in the transportation system and adjacent infrastructure and services like housing retail and policing
Source Pandodaily 7
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
Source Pandodaily 8
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
Source ProgrammableWeb 9
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
Source ProgrammableWeb 18
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
29
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Smart City based on data hellip
Source Disit 5
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sup2
httpservicemapdisitorgWebAppGrafomappajsp
6
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Smart City Seoulbull Seoul South Korea has equipped its taxis and buses with GPS
transmitters and used data from the movement of these vehicles to monitor traffic flows and optimize traffic lights speed limits and public transportation schedules often in real-time
bull The city further combines this vehicle data with smart transit-card data (more recently NFC-enabled smartphone wallet data) to observe the movement of people through the cityrsquos subways buses and taxis and ensure both adequate capacity in the transportation system and adjacent infrastructure and services like housing retail and policing
Source Pandodaily 7
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
Source Pandodaily 8
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
Source ProgrammableWeb 9
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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sup2
httpservicemapdisitorgWebAppGrafomappajsp
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Smart City Seoulbull Seoul South Korea has equipped its taxis and buses with GPS
transmitters and used data from the movement of these vehicles to monitor traffic flows and optimize traffic lights speed limits and public transportation schedules often in real-time
bull The city further combines this vehicle data with smart transit-card data (more recently NFC-enabled smartphone wallet data) to observe the movement of people through the cityrsquos subways buses and taxis and ensure both adequate capacity in the transportation system and adjacent infrastructure and services like housing retail and policing
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Smart City Seoulbull Seoul South Korea has equipped its taxis and buses with GPS
transmitters and used data from the movement of these vehicles to monitor traffic flows and optimize traffic lights speed limits and public transportation schedules often in real-time
bull The city further combines this vehicle data with smart transit-card data (more recently NFC-enabled smartphone wallet data) to observe the movement of people through the cityrsquos subways buses and taxis and ensure both adequate capacity in the transportation system and adjacent infrastructure and services like housing retail and policing
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Smart City Other Examplesbull Dublin Ireland worked with IBM to install a network of sensors throughout the
city to monitor traffic in real-time bull This data is combined with closed-circuit cameras and bus-mounted GPS transmitters to
digitally map the city in real-time and to enable real-time intelligent traffic management measures
bull London hired Microsoft in 2011 to create a developer platform around its real-time raw transportation data with the goal of offering consumers more insight into the various transportation options available on any given route bull Usage of the platform quickly grew from thousands to millions of users per day bull The city also layered in Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature vibration and
humidity and to detect faults in the Underground train system bull Uber offer cities beginning with Boston access to its trip data for use in
master-planning
Source Pandodaily 8
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
Source ProgrammableWeb 9
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
Source ProgrammableWeb 18
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
29
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
41
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Smart City Data and APIbull The smart cities agenda is transforming how cities manage their infrastructure
and how they communicate with citizens and local businesses bull Open data and the use of sensor technologies to provide real-time feedback
on the use of urban infrastructure are two components at the center of what is considered a ldquosmart cityrdquo
bull Cities around the world are opening up their public transport data to enable third-party developers to create new commercial and social good products
bull Public transport is often a good starting point for cities looking to open up useful data sources as part of a smart cities agenda
Source ProgrammableWeb 9
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
Source ProgrammableWeb 18
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Smart City Data and APIbull How public transport data is opened (and the role of APIs in this process)
demonstrates the potential that comes from cities opening up their data bull It is an immediately useful data source that enhances participation in city life bull It can add value to contextual and personal data bull It has a real-time component bull There are commercial revenue opportunities across a range of industry uses with
innovative business models that can be applied bull It often involves multiple stakeholders and therefore requires aggregating of data from
multiple sources
Source ProgrammableWeb 10
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Connected Smart Cities
httpconnectedsmartcitieseu 11
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativebull The Open amp Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative signed by 31 cities from
Finland Denmark Belgium Portugal Italy Spain and Brazil aims to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread open standards and principles enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once by making systems interoperable between cities and within a city
bull Cities adopt an initial open-licensed standard API FIWARE NGSI which provides lightweight and simple means to gather publish query and subscribe context-based real-time information
bull The cities will also use and improve standard data models based on experimentation and actual usage bull The initial data models were chosen by mature European smart cities in the CitySDK
initiative forming the basis for a joint City Service Development Kit
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Open API Platform FIWAREbull The EU-funded open API platform FIWARE has reached an agreement with
seven countries to embed its core infrastructure as open API standards for creating new civic tech solutions bull Belgium Brazil Denmark Finland Italy Portugal and Spain
bull Agreed to three technical mechanisms for the development of smart city infrastructure bull To support the deployment of FIWARErsquos NGSI API open standard which proposes a
common data model for getting real-time contextual data about cities bull To share API data models starting with the CitySDK APIs bull To use the open source platform CKAN to publish open data
bull The initiative hopes to foster the growth of a new wave of startups focused on smart city technologies
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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FIWARE
httpsforgefiwareorgpluginsmediawikiwikifiwareindexphpFI-WARE_NGSI-10_Open_RESTful_API_Specification
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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CitySDKbull The CitySDK project is co-
funded by the European Union and is about creating a City Service Development Kit a collection of tools and APIs to help cities become more smart bull CitySDK Participation API bull CitySDK Mobility API bull CitySDK Tourism API
httpwwwcitysdkeu 15
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
Source ProgrammableWeb 18
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
29
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Smart City amp Connected City
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Open Data Is The Fuel Of Smart Mobility
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
Source ProgrammableWeb 18
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
29
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Three Steps hellip1 Making Data Available
bull Government and cities providing ldquoopen datardquo through portal 2 Making Data Accessible
bull Government and cities providing API through partners bull Government and cities using a marketplace to trade data
3 Making Data Valuable bull How are developers using public transport APIs to empower a smart cities agenda and
what is the progress of city authorities looking to make their transportation systems smart
Source ProgrammableWeb 18
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
29
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
38
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
42
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Making Data Available Accessible and Valuable
bull Schedule and Transit Open data is common in North America but not so common in EU bull National Transit DB and US City Open Data Census
bull New approach in France taken recently with the creation of a new government Opendata web site bull Datagouvfr
bull In Germany the concept of marketplace for data was put in place by the government bull MDM Mobility Marketplace
bull In UK the London Datastore offers all sorts of data about the City
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
29
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Data Datagouvfr (France)
httpwwwdatagouvfrfrgroupsterritoires-et-transports
20
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
24
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
29
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
23
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
24
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Data US City Open Data Census
httpus-citycensusokfnorg22
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Data Seattle
httpsdataseattlegovbrowsecategory=Transportation
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Public Dialogue in NYC
httpwwwnycgovhtmlvisionzeropagesdialoguemaphtml
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Data Mobility Marketplace in Germanybull Project funded by German Government bull Pilot started in 2012 and should be productive in 2014 bull Marketplace for mobility related data where authorities (like public transport
companies) and private companies can sellbuy data
httpwwwmdm-portalde 25
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 26
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Quandl
httpswwwquandlcom 27
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Open Data Toolingbull Geographic Information System centric
bull ArcGIS OpenData Spallian Carto bull Data Centric
bull cKan DataHubio Junar OpenDataSoft Socrata bull CrowdSourcing Centric
bull Spallian TellMyCIty bull Any tool enabling sharing your data hellip
28
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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ArcGis OpenData
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
31
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Spallian
httpwwwspalliancom 30
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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cKan
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Datahubio
httpdatahubiodatasetq=gtfs
32
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Junar
33
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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OpenDataSoft
34
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Socrata
35
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Socrata
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Spallian TellMyCity
httpwwwspalliancomtellmycity
Already 70 cities using it
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Data Everywherebull Data Everywhere makes it
simple for spreadsheet users to synchronize share and collect data
bull Data Everywherersquos spreadsheet add-ins take data from your existing spreadsheets and automatically send it to other authorized people spreadsheets and applications
httpswwwdataeverywherecom 37
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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SNCF
httpopendatatransiliencomappshttpsdatasncfcomapps
SNCF is the French Rail Mobility provider
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Transit Real Time Data Standards And Protocols
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Transit Open Format Two Competing Formats
bull Transit open format as open protocol and API provided by Google GTFS platform and API bull The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public
transportation schedules and associated geographic information bull GTFS feeds allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to
write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way bull GTFS-realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
realtime updates about their fleet to application developers It is an extension to GTFS bull EU standard named Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
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Google GTFS
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google GTFSbull Provides schedule (static data) or Real-time Transit information everybody
can use bull GTFS feeds
bull General Transit Feed Specification Reference bull Transit Data Feed List of Public Feeds bull GTFS Data exchange
bull Tools bull Google Map Transit bull Google transit for developers bull Google Now and crowdsourcing from Waze bull List of tools not built by Google httpscodegooglecompgoogletransitdatafeedwiki
OtherGTFSTools
41
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Google GTFS
42
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google GTFS
42
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
69
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Data National Transit Data (USA)
httpwwwntdprogramgovntdprogramdatahtm 43
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
71
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
73
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
75
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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SIRI the European standardbull Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
bull XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real time information about public transport services and vehicles
bull The protocol is a European Committee for Standardization technical specification bull developed with initial participation by France Germany (Verband Deutscher
Verkehrsunternehmen) Scandinavia and the UK (RTIG) bull Based on the Transmodel (EN TC278 Reference Data Model For Public Transport
EN12896) abstract model for public transport information bull The present version of TRANSMODEL (V50) uses an Entity-Relationship modeling
approach bull Comprises a general purpose model and an XML schema for public transport
information bull More Information httpuser47094vseasilycouksiri
44
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
45
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Google Now
46
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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mdy
Google Maps Transit
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google Now
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Mapping the World
47
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
48
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Mapping the World
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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OpenStreetMaps
httpsblogopenstreetmaporg
httpwwwopenstreetmaporg
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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OpenStreetMaps
httpshelpopenstreetmaporg
httpwikiopenstreetmaporgwikiMain_Page
49
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UMAP
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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UMAP
51
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Google Maps
52
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google Maps
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Google Maps
53
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
71
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
73
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
75
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google Maps
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google myMaps
httpsplaygooglecomstoreappsdetailsid=comgoogleandroidappsm4b
httpswwwgooglecommapsdu0
54
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google Map Maker
httpwwwgooglecommapmaker 55
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Google Earth
httpswwwgooglecomearth 56
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
57
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Nokia Here
Android Version
Samsung Gear VR Glass Version
httpswwwherecom
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Mapquest
httpwwwmapquestcom58
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Maps Creator
httpwwwzeemapscomhttpswwwmapboxcomeditorstyle 59
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
69
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
71
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
73
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
75
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Collaborative Maps
httpwwwcollaborativemaporg 60
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Comparing Sources (Geocoding Address)
httpwwwideeslibresorgGeoCheck 61
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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DeCarta Bought by UBER
httpwwwdecartacom62
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Places for Android and iOS
The Places APIs for Android and iOS bridge the gap between simple geographic locations expressed as latitude and longitude and how people associate location with a known place
httpsdevelopersgooglecomplacesandroid 63
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Mobility Lab Tools
httpsgithubcomconveyalmodeifyMobility Lab64
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Subway Map
httpkalyanicom201010subway-map-visualization-jquery-plugin
65
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
69
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
71
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
73
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
75
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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D3js
httpd3jsorg 66
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Transitivejs
httpsgithubcomconveyaltransitivejs 67
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Leaflet open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
httpleafletjscom 68
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Journey Planner Algorithm And Engines
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
From Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French) 70
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Searching The Fastest Algorithmbull In 1959 Dijkstra published the first algorithm
bull Tree of minimum total length between n nodes bull In 1987 the algorithm was improved by Tarjan
bull But still not efficient enough for computer available at that time bull In 2005 a challenge organised by Dimacs lead to the modern version of the
algorithm bull The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology did provide several very efficient ones
bull In 2008 Geisberger proposed the ldquo Contraction Hierarchies rdquo algorithm bull Faster and simpler for route calculation used by OSRM
bull In 2012 Daniel Delling from Microsoft Research proposed RAPTOR bull The algorithm is the one used by Navitia
bull In 2013 the ldquoconnection scan algorithmrdquo was released improving Raptor
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Open Source Routing Enginesbull Most of open source routing engines are bundled with a webmobile front-end
and a cartography service bull EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner bull GraphServer Navitia Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) R4
bull Some offers only a Library or API bull Mumoro is Library that aims to provide multimodal routing
bull Research projects bull Path2Go Synthese
71
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
73
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
75
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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GRAPHSERVER
bull Graphserver is a multi-modal trip planner Graphserver supports transit modes through GTFS and street-based modes through OSM
bull The core graphserver library has Python bindings which provide easy construction storage and analysis of graph objects
httpgraphservergithubcomgraphserver 72
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
75
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Navitia 20 (Open Source)
httpsgithubcomCanalTPnavitia
1multi-modal journeys computation2line schedules3next departures4explore public transport data5sexy things such as isochrones
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)bull C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths
in road networks bull Combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of
the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project
httpproject-osrmorg and httpmapproject-osrmorg 74
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Rapid Real-time Routingbull RRRR (usually pronounced R4) is a C-language implementation of the
RAPTOR public transit routing algorithm bull httpsgithubcombliksemlabsrrrr
bull Project from the developers of OpenTripPlanner bull The goal of this project is to generate sets of Pareto-optimal itineraries over large
geographic areas (eg BeNeLux or all of Europe) improving on the resource consumption and complexity of existing more flexible alternatives
bull It is the core routing component of the Bliksem journey planner and passenger information system
bull The system should eventually support real-time vehicletrip updates reflected in trip plans and be capable of running directly on a mobile device with no Internet connection
75
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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MUltiModal MUltiObjective ROutingbull Mumoro is a research project
bull Library aims to provide multimodal routing combining subway walking and bike bull It is also multiobjective it finds the best route optimizing according to time
taken mode changes CO2 emissions etc bull httpsgithubcomTristramgmumoro
76
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Path2Go
httpwwwnetworkedtravelerorgindexphpo=y 77
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Synthese
httpsextranetrcsmobilitycomprojectssynthesewiki
78
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Routing Engines Through API
httpswwwrome2riocomdocumentationhttpwwwprogrammablewebcom
79
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Transit Applications
80
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwridescoutappcom 98
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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Transit Applications
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
81
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
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CityTransit Informationbull City Specific Web with live info
bull Transport for London bull MTA in New York City and Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
bull Making transit information ubiquitous in buildings and other public spaces bull Transiteditor and TransitScreen
bull Bus Specific bull OneBusAway experiment
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 82
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwridescoutappcom 98
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Transport for London
httptflgovuk 83
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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MTA
httpappsmtainfotrainTime 84
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Tunnel Vision NYC
Augmented reality to show the traffic density
85
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwridescoutappcom 98
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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TransitScreen (USA)
httptransitscreencom 86
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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OneBusAway
httponebusawayorg 87
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Ecosystem of apps
httpwwwcitygoroundorgapps 88
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwridescoutappcom 98
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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httpwwwtransiteditorcom
89
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
90
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Multi-City Transit Applicationsbull Moovit and Ototo mobile app leveraging crowd information and delivering
door-to-door public transport information bull Scout now using Open Street Map and offering both GPS and traffic
information bull RideScout is a startup looking to simplify transit options for people on the go bull OMG transit offers multimodal search and transportation options and booking bull The Transit works in 76 metropolitan areas that believe in Open Data bull Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA) bull Research
bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transportbull Wants to solve the ldquouncertaintyrdquo that public transit users face
bull Wherersquos my bus right now How do I find the right stop to board it How do I pay when I get on Itrsquos enough to make you want to stick with a car
bull One big challenge that Moovit faces is the sheer variety of different data sources it has to handle bull In some areas there are real-time feeds of bus and train locations available whereas in
others it has to work with fixed timetable information bull Whatrsquos more that data comes to Moovit in a variety of formats from 2000 transport
agencies around the world bull 30 employees (Dec 2013) and already and already 100 metropolitan areas
91
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwridescoutappcom 98
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Moovit Wherersquos My Public Transport
93
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwridescoutappcom 98
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Scout
httpwwwscoutgpscom 95
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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RideScout Transit Data Hubbull uses Google App Engine Google Datastore and Python and Django bull As the company adds new data sources from across the country it plans to
eventually make it easy to plan a trip from California to DC with a single search
96
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwridescoutappcom 98
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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OMG Transit (USA cities)
httpsomgtransitcommobileapps 99
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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The Transit App
httpthetransitappcom 100
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull Improve the transit experience of commuters by giving them access to
transportation information via a web enabled mobile device from any location bull Joint project between Cisco City of Seoul and city of Amsterdam
bull The PTA consists of a number of solution elements including bull A personal travel planner which among other functions allows the user to select the
optimal modes of transport for their journey schedule travel activities and reduce their carbon emissions
bull Carbon Calculator which informs users of their carbon footprint over time (daily weekly monthly and yearly)
bull Real Time Router which allows the user to optimize their trip as and when conditions change (eg traffic accidents)
bull Transportation Information Service providing information about public transport options routes arrival times and schedules
101
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Cisco Personal Travel Assistant (PTA)bull The project took 24 months to implement bull The actual (or projected) savings from the project are
bull Reduction of 127 in traffic volumes and 128 improvement in the speed of vehicles
102
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Funded through a Demonstration grant by the Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation bull This project will provide travelers with personalized information that reflects
their transit needs pulling in the most cutting-edge trends happening at the intersection of the transportation and technology industries bull Open transport data standards such as GTFS and openstreetmap bull Multimodal trip planning engines like OpenTripPlanner and bull Web-based visualization tools such as the D3 library
bull The goal is to answer more fundamental questions about bull How the important places in a personrsquos life are connected via various travel options bull How robust those connections are and bull How they fit into a larger travel decision-making context
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 103
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Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
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PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiativebull Much of the initial work has been focused on the design and development of
a new transportation visualization package bull Called Transitivejs which visually articulates personalized transportation data drawing
inspiration from stylized transit maps bull Additionally work has begun on customizing OpenTripPlanner to generate
summaries of transit options bull Rather than emphasizing the details of a specific journey at a specific time of day the
project aims to build features that help people explore and contextualize transport options as a holistic system
bull By showing how key places are connected different transport options may become more easily identified as a logical part of daily routines
Source Mobility Lab Tech Initiative 104
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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From Transit Applications To Multimodal Journey Planner
105
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OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
OpenTripPlannerbull Manage walking mass transit bike sharing and car
sharing on an open source platform for iOS 6 that cities and individuals can help design
bull The app was created by a non-profit technology organization OpenPlans and will be raising contributions on Kickstarter bull OpenPlans Transportation http
transportationopenplansorg
106
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 httpwwwopentripplannerorg 107
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack Journey Planner as a Service
httpwwwplannerstackcom108
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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PlannerStack ldquoVibrantrdquo Community
httpwwwplannerstackorg 109
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
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EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Plannerbull 28 submissions of journey planners out of which 12 were shortlisted
Source 110
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU-wide Multi-Modal Travel InformationEU-wide Real-Time Traffic information
Free safety-related minimum Traffic Info
Interoperable EU-wide eCall
EU ITS Directive
111
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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EU funded Multi-modal Journey Planner
112
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European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
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Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
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Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
European Itinerary Search
httpwwwsimplicim-lorraineeusimplicim_eneuspiritsearch113
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door to Door Journey Planner
114
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Traveler journey before
Source World Economic ForumThe Boston Consulting Group analysis
115
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm Door to Door from A to B hellip
bull Travel today is more than just station to station it is about door-to-door connectivity thus giving rise to new market players offering integrated various modes to travel
Source Frost and Sullivan 116
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
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Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
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CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
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Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
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Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
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A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
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CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
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GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
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Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
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CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
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eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
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Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
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Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
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Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
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API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
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MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
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API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
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API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
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API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
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API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
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Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Definition
bull From an origin and a destination and a set of optimization criteria to get one or more routes combining different transport modes
bull This definition is now ldquoextendedrdquo bull And provide in-mobility real time information and advices for a seamless journey and
reducing bull Travel time bull Traveler stress bull City congestion and pollution bull Etc
bull Could be used to promote certain mode of transportation and to analyze the demand by transportation operators
117
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MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
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RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
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Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
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Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MultiModal is the new Paradigm bull Majors steps for providers
bull Geocoding (and positioning positions in a graph) bull Route calculation (shortest path or best path using different weights) bull Presentation of the results (biasing filtering) bull Real-time Route directions (step by step) and alerts bull Aggregation of data and analysis
118
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
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Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
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Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
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Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
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Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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From Travel to Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Door
Image from httpmobilitylaborgtechtransit-tech-initiativehttpscitymappercom119
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Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Mobility Multimodal amp Door to Doorbull Multimodal is a way to combine metro (subway) train bus bicycle walk or
car to go from one place to another bull The other terminology used is door to door in that case you have to add taxi and black
car (car with chauffeur) bull Some important distinctions should be noted when speaking of multimodal
search bull Planning vs Booking some routing includes prices some not bull Routing could be based on actual timetables or only on approximate ones
bull For example some do not use actual timetables (they use information like one train every hour and might then be wrong by up to an hour) most others do
bull Multimodal is emerging mainly due to the high speed train network but also to reduce CO2 emission So they are generally also taken into account as search parameters
120
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
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API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Rome2Rio ndash MultiModal Search
httpswwwrome2riocom 121
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Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Rome2Rio Also a Platform
122
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
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API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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KDS Neo ndash Corporate Booking
KDS Neo 123
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
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httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
RouteRank
httpwwwrouterankcomfr 124
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 125
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
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API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 Source Sia Partners 126
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Major web sites and apps
bull TravelStoreMaker bull Bulgaria-based TravelStoreMaker has developed software that supports the planning of
complex itineraries across multiple modes of travel with content coming from many sources
bull Wanderio bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
bull Use Rome2Rio
bull FromAtoB bull Door-to-door multimodal tool used for B2C (Air Rail Bus and car)
127
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
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API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
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API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
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Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
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Multimodal and door-to-door Regional offer
bull Europe bull GoEuro
bull Multimodal (Air Rail Bus) but not door-to-door (only at city town and village level) bull MyTripSet
bull From Voyages-sncf Air Car Train bull Waymate
bull Multi-modal search (Air Rail Bus car) but not yet door-to-door
bull USA bull HopStop (bought by Apple)
bull US local door-to-door and transit transportation bull Now offering some other countries and cities hellip
128
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Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
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Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
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Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
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PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
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Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
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HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal ground transportationbull Kelbillet
bull French multimodal search engine that indexes fares for trains buses airplanes cars and rideshares Itrsquos aimed at French travelers taking domestic and short-haul trips
bull Loco2 bull UK multimodal train only search engine in Europe within thousands of European
destinations bull Wanderu
bull Ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in the USA
bull Mozio bull From and to Airport mainly cab and shared bus
129
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search - France Initiativebull France is launching a project to create a nation-wide multimodal search
engine by 2015 bull Initiative from french gov agency named laquo Agence franccedilaise pour lrsquoinformation
multimodale et la billettique (Afimb) raquo and with bull Transportation Agency Groupement des autoriteacutes responsables de transport (Gart) bull French Regions Association des reacutegions de France (ARF)
bull Objective bull Find an itinerary in France using plane train car metro tramway bus bycicle car
sharing and Taxi bull A technical report to be published in 2014 and realised by Moviken
bull Then a call for proposal for making it real for 2015
Source Mobiliciteacute 130
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal search By Geography
bull Country Based bull India MakeMyTrip RoutePlanner covers 1 billion multi-modal routes and provides service
via Web mobile apps and even SMS bull France GeoVelo Wehicles Mappy bull Germany Qixxit AllRyder (mobile only from WayMate) HAFAS from Hacon bull Great Britain ndash TransportDirect bull Netherlands http9292nlen bull Map makr
bull Country Region Based bull Simplicim (Lorraine France) for EU itinerary bull StationMobile (Grenoble France)
131
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Search - By Geographybull City based
bull City Mapper London NYC Paris Berlin bull CitiWay bull Sharette mix public transportation and ride-sharing
132
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
httpscitymappercom133
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015 134
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitiWay
httpwwwcitywaycompany 135
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Sharette
httpssharettefr 136
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Examples
Tools Possible Classification
B2B B2C
Whatrsquos your need
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
Redirect to suppliers
KDS Neo RouteRank
Rome2Rio
Multimodal
Door-to-door
Integrated Booking
Planning Only
myTripSetsMakeMyTrip
WanderioFromAtoB
CityMapperMoovit
137
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform and Ecosystems
138
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Platform is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world of the Digital world bull Platforms can be accidental or intentional
bull A platform is a foundational product that moves beyond product status by encouraging others to build play andor iterate on top of it bull The value and utility of the system is continually being discovered and expanded not just
by the organization but by its users and customers bull Platforms are shared innovation engines that outsource the costly and
uncertain discovery process bull Many platforms today are 100 software but they donrsquot have to be
bull AirBnB and Uber turned the physical world (cars and housing) into a platform for millions
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post139
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform What Are We Doing Thatrsquos Bigger Than Us
bull Users are building businesses on the back of the platform and in some cases changing how they operate in order to better serve the platform
bull Establishing a platform in the center of a robust digital ecosystem requires a digital operating model one that is appropriately permeable to third parties that can co-create new value from what a company and others have to offer
Source Aaron Dignan Medium blog Post
From a platform the company builds upon to a platform the world builds
upon
140
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
PlannerStack
httpwwwplannerstackcom141
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
A-Mano ndash Geolocalised Platform in-situ
httpwwwa-manofr 142
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenData
httpwwwcityzendatacom143
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 144
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
GE Predix Platform for Industrial Age
httpswwwgesoftwarecomplatform 145
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Daimler Mobility Services Moovel
httpswwwmoovelcom
GottaPark
146
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-Citybull Mobility Service Framework
bull A next-generation European-wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility-related services as well as the creation of corresponding Apps
bull This will enable third party providers to produce a wide range of interoperable value-added services and Apps for road users
bull Mobility-related Data as a Service bull A framework for the integration of various different data sources like sensors cooperative
systems telematics open data repositories people-centric sensing and media data streams so that these data can be accessed and utilised in a unified way
bull Personal Mobility Assistant bull An end user assistant that allows road users to make easily use of the information
provided by Apps and to interact with them based on a speech recognition approach
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 147
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Simpli-City
httpwwwsimpli-cityeu 148
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
CitizenGate
httpwwwcitizengatecom 149
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
eBay Hotels In Germany
httpwwwebayderppreisen 150
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Other Platforms
httpwwwcovoituragefr httpwwwkelbilletfr
151
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
HopOn Smart Mobile Ticketting
httphoponcohome 152
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Platform Ecosystems are created Through APIs
The new digital networked real-time society forces us to start thinking and acting as an ecosystem
Ecosystems are developed using platforms to glue services via API and funds to encourage startups and partners to hook in
Source PWC Exploiting the growing value from information 153
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs1 The first is created by volunteers who just scrape the data As the API
creators are also reusing them the format and vocabulary for their responses and resources are often custom made for their specific use case bull Examples Swiss Public Transport API Belgium iRail
2 A second type of APIs are the ones created by data owners or the transport companies themselves bull They are set up in order to stimulate reuse for use cases they have in mind The problem
with these APIs is that often there are rate limits it is hard to get through the user agreements they have awkward SOAPXML constructions and they dont follow existing specifications such as SIRI or GTFS-realtimerdquo
bull Examples Dutch Railways French National Railways
Source ProgrammableWeb 154
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Three types of public transport APIs3 A third type of APIs are the ones created by a consortium of stakeholders
reusing the API and the data owner bull The API comes to exist after different people with different use cases are putting forward
some resources they need when they also add how the response should look like and maybe help build these APIs on top of Open Data
bull Examples Bliksem Labs Navitia OpenTripPlanner
Source ProgrammableWeb 155
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Stichting OpenGeo (Netherlands)
httpopengeonl 156
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Transport API Britainbull The Transport API has about 600 developers and while initial growth focused
on smartphone apps it is seeing greater uptake among hyperlocal applications offered by larger enterprises
bull Becoming a data aggregator is one approach to commercialization that may suit some developers For Transport API the opportunities to service new markets is continually growing
bull Commercial API license model has drawn in hyperlocal customers like ScreachTV and Toothpick bull It is also servicing large government authorities and global franchises operating in the
UK bull Heathrow airport populating their kiosk screens and websites
157
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
httptransportapicom 158
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain
Target the developers
159
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Transport API Britain (Bus Model)
160
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA)
bull The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) provides the MTA API for access to New Yorkrsquos subway and bus GTFS data feeds
bull A new policy will require developers to register for an API key before being granted access to the API data
bull Since the MTA began publishing its open data in 2008 over 200 mobile apps using MTA data have been launched by the developer community
bull MTArsquos terms and conditions of use require developers ldquoto download and host the data on the developers or a third partys server and to make the data available to others who will access the server provided by the developerrdquo (Original emphasis in the terms and conditions)
Source ProgrammableWeb 161
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
MTA Developers Discussions
Target the developers
162
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Queensland Australiabull The state of Queensland in Australia has responsibility for managing public
transport services for its cities including Brisbane bull Its Department of Transport and Main Roadsrsquo TransLink division has released
the OPIA API which strongly recommends that developers build their own server-side service that wraps the TransLink API and to use caching of all data except the data needed for immediate journey planning
Source ProgrammableWeb 163
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCastbull Writing an API on top of existing APIs perhaps by augmenting additional
information is definitely a viable business model bull This is the approach TransiCast has taken
bull specialized in aggregating transit data across North America bull working on curating public transportation data access on GoogleTransitDataFeed since
2006 with no association with Google bull Out of the 300 feeds covered about 20 require API keys and they keep those as issued
by the agency to developers to place calls to the agency web services bull Use Google App Engine (GAE)
Source ProgrammableWeb 164
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API TransitCast
httptransicastcom 165
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API City Service Dev Kit bull Co-funded by the European Union developer-facing API design-model that
hopes to become a standard across European cities
httpwwwcitysdkeu 166
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
API Othersbull TriMet in Portland waqs one of the first having implemented GTFS and real-
time feeds and have a host of experience bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Transport for London has pioneered the bulk delivery of real-time data as well as targeted real-time APIs at large scale bull Use Microsoft Azure
bull Navitia is an emerging open source API platform for public transport data bull Contributors are being invited to upload transport data to the platform for their cities and
six cities are already available bull The API provides a common transit glossary so that developers can scale applications for
cities using the same resource calls
Source ProgrammableWeb 167
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
168
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Multimodal Door-To-Door is the future of mobility
bull Door-to-door app are starting on the lower-end of the market offering local mobile transit information and now booking
bull Then with time they will grow and target the major cities then some key regions and all transports mode
bull These companies are looking for growth targeting the major revenue niches
bull Multimodal Search and online booking real time transportation data will merge to create new kind of virtual mobility assistant The IPITA
169
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170
Copyright copy William El Kaim 2015
Key Resources
bull Tristram Grabener blog and PHD thesis (in French)
bull Frost amp Sullivanrsquos Future of Mobility bull Mobility Lab Transit Tech Initiative
Claudine OSullivan httpwwwclaudineosullivancom Email infoclaudineosullivancom
William(at)el-kaim(point)com +33 6 41 73 00 34
httpfrlinkedincominwilliamelkaim httpwwwtwittercomwelkaim httpwwwslidesharenetwelkaim
170