Transport

information as
infrastructure in
the Future City
Jonathan Raper
CEO
TransportAPI.com
By Placr Ltd.
Future cities will be
digital marketplaces
Sensors will be everywhere
Data will be pervasive & open
Services will consume data
Open questions
How does distribution work?
Who will deliver the services?

Data distribution in the
future city
Data will be distributed by
Data producers? < BUT each has a limited catalogue
Cities? < need developer engagement plan & resource
Aggregators < can gather, validate and scale
Aggregators will be the new distributors
Digital service delivery
in the future city
Digital services could be delivered by
Data producers? < BUT cannot know business cases
Cities? < Need to create/procure a platform at cost
App developers? < can design, deliver and monetise
App developers will deliver the digital services
Open transport data
London DataStore began by releasing all Londons transport
data in 2010 (thanks Boris!)
Dept. of Transport then supported Traveline to
release bus data across the country in 2012
Network Rail released all train data in 2013
Many other providers have released data
http://transportapi.com/ has data for 360,000
British bus stops and 2,500 rail stations
We can now distribute transport info to
developers in many different sectors
through a range of channels

transportapi.com
Covers all Britains public transport from open sources
Live, timetables & infrastructure
Historic archiving of movements
Performance indicators
Public transport journey planning
Car and cycle routing
650+ developers signed up
transportapi gallery
TransportAPI.com catalogue
Feed Source Footprint
Train service live departures Network Rail Great Britain
Train service timetables Network Rail Great Britain
Tube service live departures TfL London
Tube service timetables TfL London
Rail coach timetables Traveline National Dataset Great Britain
National Express coach timetables National Coach Services DB Great Britain
TfL Bus timetables TfL London
TfL Bus live departures TfL London
Non-TfL Bus timetables Traveline National Dataset GB non-London
Non-TfL Bus live departures Traveline NextBuses GB non-London
Journey planning itineraries Traveline SouthEast Traveline SE (England S. of Humber)
TransportBuzz tweet mapping TransportAPI UK and Ireland
Performance indicators for tube/train TransportAPI London/GB
Car-based journey planning from
postcode to postcode
TransportAPI/OSM Great Britain
Cycle-based journey route planning
from postcode to postcode
TransportAPI/CycleStreets UK
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Feeds
Cache
Stop/sta
tion data
Joins
Data
tables
API
App
logic
Updating
Lookups
Content
Displays
Maps
Geolocate
Keys
App
Processing
TransportAPI architecture
Real-time
Cloud servers
Ra
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dat
a
Business model
Analytics
Integration with
Other data feeds
API
Free apps

Developers
Ads
Fees
Customer
relationship
Compilation,
referencing &
validation
Delivery of data
as-a-service
Raw timetable &
Real time data
Updates,
comments
Services launched from open data
Travel portal Train lateness
Dashboard Tweet map
API Sign Ups Over Time
Lots of growth..
Rate of growth accelerating
CityMapper
Londons most popular travel app
TransportAPI supplying the back end for
rail data
Accuracy, latency are paramount
Looking for guarantees & management of
liabilities
The Long Tail
Performance as added value
London Underground performance indicators
Real travel time through London bus network
Train lateness maps across country
Partnerships like journeymapper.org
Constant iteration & new
product development







It's designed for transport planners and other
professionals in the industry to get a mix of anecdotes and
incident data for specific places. For the rest of us, it's a
gold mine of schadenfreude and witticisms.
http://transportbuzz.com
How to engage with us?
Use us an innovation lab 1000 hits/day free
Publish your public & private transport data
Let us power your transport apps
Connect us to your web site & public displays
Deploy our UK transport model on your site

Contact
http://www.transportapi.com/
jonathan.raper@transportapi.com
@Madprof