1. Disruptive open transport data
http://transportapi.com
Jonathan Raper
CEO, Placr

2. Placr/TransportAPI
• Placr is an SME founded in 2010 & based at ODI
• TransportAPI is our open transport data service
• Aggregates timetables, departures& infrastructure
• We record everything that moves, all the time
• We create performance indicators eg late train map
• We are a transport data service/ solution house
• Target markets in travel, media, local government
• Supply feeds to operators, web & app developers
• Enabling new transport propositions

3. transportapi.com
• Launched with Traveline and
Network Rail feeds last year
• Scalable cloud-based service
• Web or developer output
• Sign up/ get access online- 250++
developers signed up
• Free use up 1000 hits per day
• Charges for hosting, volume &
guarantees
• http://developer.transportapi.com/

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TransportAPI architecture

5. transportapi gallery

6. Transport performance
• Transport data can be embedded in web widget
• London Underground performance indicators
• Real travel time through London bus network
• Train lateness maps across country

7. Hyperlocal widget
• Embed transport
info in websites
• 600 sites are live

8. Historic data
• Recording data streams on
tube, bus and train
• Storing and structuring them
• Making historic data available
through TransportAPI
• Producing indicators from the
historic data

9. Travel portal developed with ELGIN

10. Analysing user requests for
departure information
• Mapping London Countdown live bus
departure requests
• Analysing app users requests and
subsequent behaviour
• Building anonymised user profiles
Yellow: weekday
Red: weekend

11. Transport social media gathering

12. Sentiment analysis
• Local Twitter search eg bus+driver for “London”
• Volume of comments to services by hour/day etc
• Early warning for problems, CRM tool…

13. CityMapper
• London’s most popular travel app
• TransportAPI supplying the back
end for rail data
• Accuracy, latency are paramount
• Looking for guarantees &
management of liabilities

14. Ready to integrate
• REST endpoints for timetables, departures
• Performance indicators by mode, location
• Infrastructure downloads
• Historic datasets
• Federated API with cyclestreets, traintaxi etc
• 3Scale API platform with authentication
• Scalable delivery
• eCommerce solution
• Developer community now at work

15. Contact
http://transportapi.com/
jonathan.raper@placr.co.uk
@Madprof