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© CGI Group Inc. CONFIDENTIAL
Lessons from Over 10 Years of Public Transport Open Data
Mika Vuorio / CGI17.6.2014ITS Europe 2014 Helsinki
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Background
CGI has over 40 years experience on Public Transport IT-systems
CGI has delivered 30+ Journey Planners, for example
• Helsinki region journey planner
• Tampere region journey planner
• Finnish nation wide journey planner
Openness of the Journey planner solution has been key value since the beginning
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Lessons learned – It’s about Community
Involve and encourage
the ecosystem
• Travel Hacks
• Competitions
• Open Data Conferences
Picture: TravelHack, Göteborg, Sweden
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Lessons learned – Technical Views
At the same time improve your technical capability to offer Open Data
• Both original source data and processed data query API’s available• The third party user has the choice
• Processed data query API provides faster way to utilize
• Valuable feedback• Improvements to both API’s but also to the data quality
• Data Quality• Data quality improvements along the way
• Interface specifications and common terms
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Lessons learned – Who is using the data?
In the beginning there was worry how data is used and is there possibility 3rd party apps confuse the end users • in past 12 years we haven seen any issues on Open Data, in contrast there
has been created wealth of easy to use apps
• Developer Site• API registration and usage statistics
• Access must be easy and automatic
• There is need to communicate with the third party developers• Statistics to proactively add capacity
• Gathering Information where the Open Data is used
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