What is PD CEN/TS 17118 - Open journey planning API about?
The availability of accurate and timely information about public transport services has been an increasing expectation and systems have been developed to assist in the compilation and delivery of such information making the best use of the rapid advances in information technology capabilities.
PD CEN/TS 17118 defines a schema for establishing an Open API for Distributed Journey Planning (OJP) that can be implemented by any local, regional or national journey planning system in order to exchange journey planning information with any other participating local, regional or national journey planning system.
Conforming to PD CEN/TS 17118, OJP allows a system to engineer just one interface that it can make available widely (to authorised users or openly as they so choose) rather than having to engineer separate APIs for each bipartite exchange arrangement that may be required with other systems.
Who is PD CEN/TS 17118 - Open journey planning API for?
PD CEN/TS 17118 on Open journey planning API is useful for:
- Software companies/developers
- The IT industry
- Journey planners
- The Travel industry
- Telecommunication companies
Why should you use PD CEN/TS 17118 - Open journey planning API?
Open API for distributed journey planning initiative was developed to exchange accurate and timely information about public transport services. Open API is intended to support distributed journey planning, experience of such APIs to date has shown that they can also be used for communication between personal journey planning apps and journey planning services.
PD CEN/TS 17118 provides you with the system architecture of a distributed journey planning environment.
PD CEN/TS 17118 explains basic XML structures that are commonly used by several OJP services. The organization of the sections in this chapter follows the structure of the XML schema files.
PD CEN/TS 17118 guidelines help you in improving the end-user experience of travellers in cities as well as rural areas. By linking existing traveller information services through Open API it will enhance the availability and access to transnational journey planning. Thus it will open up the path to transport on demand in remote areas and foster the use of sustainable transport modes.