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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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