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The Need for Open and Live Public Transit Data

With the advent of mobile computing, users of public transit are now demanding instant planning based on live mobility public transportation providers information. Where’s my bus? Should I take a taxi, a bike or use public transportation now?

New solutions were obviously needed beyond the basic and proprietary public transportation app and website, especially to offer a unified search solution. In order to offer such a seamless multi-mode of transportation journey planner, transportation data was needed.

Open Data Is the Fuel of Smart Mobility

Open transportation data started to be released by mobility providers, city by city, around the world.When data was not available the citizen crowd provided it to small mobility aggregators (Waze is may be the best example so far).Data could be then shared, mapped, crunched by algorithms to propose immediate value-added predictive or prescriptive services.

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