APIs in the public transport industry — what's next?
summary
Samtrafiken runs a nationwide GTFS nationwide feed and public APIs via Traffic Club/Traffic Lab, the backend for the RIA journey planner and RIA Plus combined tickets, with 700 developers and over 100 projects signed up. A 24‑hour travel hack with ~100 participants produced an accessibility app that won. Current pain points are legacy back‑office systems requiring complex transformations, inconsistent regional journey‑planning standards, fragile real‑time/disturbance ingestion, and the political and technical barriers to opening ticketing via APIs.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Sam Trafiken introduction
- 1:59Traffic Lab origins
- 3:25Traffic Club & GTFS
- 4:49Travel hackathon
- 5:35API infrastructure challenges
- 8:04Standardized journey APIs
- 9:07User-contributed info flows
- 10:10Third-party ticketing
- 10:52Q&A
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