Transport Direct - Standards

Standards

A number of data standards were developed to support the collection, transfer and management of the required transport data:-

  • CycleNetXChange a UK data protocol for exchanging information about infrastructure to support the development of a national cycle journey planning function within the Transport Direct Portal.
  • IFOPT, a CEN standard for defining public transport access information (building on NaPTAN and NPTG).
  • JourneyWeb, a protocol to allow the development of a distributed journey planning service (which became the Transport Direct Portal).
  • NaPTAN for the exchange of information associated with bus stops, railway station and other public transport access point.
  • NPTG for the exchange of information about places and points of interest.
  • SIRI, a CEN standard for exchanging real-time public transport information.
  • TransXChange, a UK data protocol for the exchange of public transport schedules in conjunction with Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, Arriva and Stagecoach Group

Other organisations involved in this work included Traveline, the Real Time Information Group (RTIG), the Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers (ATCO) and the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) as well a number of system suppliers.

Read more about this topic:  Transport Direct

Famous quotes containing the word standards:

    “It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “Measured by any standard known to science—by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,—the tension and vibration and volume and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)