Patrick Dejaco - STA - Using open data hub to enhance passenger and mobility information

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How open data can help to provide a better experience to the passengers of public transport and in general to the citizens.

Open Data Hub and südtirolmobil
Bolzano, 01.10.2021
Patrick Dejaco, Information Systems, STA

Die STA – Südtiroler Transportstrukturen AG
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The ERDF project „Bingo“
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Duration: 01.11.2016 – 31.12.2021
EU Program: ERDF
Budget: 4.100.000 Euro
Project Owner: STA
Main objective: improve attractiveness and efficiency of
public transport services by introducing a
new architecture for data exchange and
ticketing
In light of the new responsibilities assigned to STA according to the new
Mobility Law of the Province of Bolzano (LG n.15 23.11.2015).

The new IT architecture for public transport of South Tyrol
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Key points of the new architecture (organizational)
• Clear separation of the responsibilities between the PTA (Public Transport
Authority – the Province of BZ) and the PTOs (Public Transport Operators)
• Heave use of standardized protocols, mainly CEN-Protocols.
• Designed in order to ensure high-quality and rich passenger information
services, since all PTOs (including those of the rail sector) are obliged to
exchange data according to certain standards and processes.
• The architecture will be fully rolled out over the next few years.

The new IT architecture for public transport of South Tyrol
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Our new website www.südtirolmobil.info
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App
• More than 100.000 active users
• One of the most successful southtyrolean Apps
• We have about 40.000 trip request per day, with
peaks of 60.000
• You get all the information about public transport in
South Tyrol
• Push service
• Occupancy forecast
• And much more
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Why do we use the Open Data Hub?
• We had some POI-information
manually added
• High maintenance effort
• Information was still missing
• Users couldn‘t find restaurants
and hotels
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Copyright:
IDM Südtirol-Alto Adige/Helmuth Rier

Why Open Data Hub?
• We get much more information than we can provide ourselves.
• The quality of the data is better.
• Every partner works on their own domain and has the best knowledge
there.
• One endpoint fits for all information -> less integration effort.
• We also want to share our information/data
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ABSTRACT: For decades the traditional approach for solving mobility and transportation challenges has been based on the idea of creating new road or rail infrastructures. Thanks to the impressive enhancement of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies, in the last years this approach is going into the direction of rather improving the efficiency of how available transportation infrastructure is used. New digital infrastructures allow all mobility actors (vehicles, pedestrians, sensors, traffic management centers) to cooperate together to achieve the ambitious goal of improving mobility, enhancing safety, reducing congestion and environmental impacts. But how can we achieve this and ensure that public and private actors efficiently work together? In South Tyrol we have tried to give an answer to these challenges through the implementation of an open data hub, which enables the real-time data / information exchange among all interested parties and fosters the multiplication of development of research & innovation projects between local companies, research centers and public organizations. After years of implementation, the Open Data Hub South Tyrol is now creating the premises for a new historical phase for mobility in the region, with concepts like Mobility-as-a-Service or environmental traffic management that are finally moving from research to deployment. BIO: Roberto Cavaliere is an ITS Project Manager at NOI Techpark Südtirol / Alto Adige, a public-owned organization in the Italian alpine region of South Tyrol coordinating the NOI Tech Park and with the mission to drive and foster research & innovation in the region. Roberto is the reference person in NOI for all initiatives in the field of ITS and smart mobility and in the last 10 years has coordinated a relevant number of EU-funded projects in this field. His main interests cover cooperative systems, autonomous driving, ITS for the environment, mobility-as-a-service and sharing mobility, road weather information systems (RWIS).

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2023 saw the launch, after a long and well-structured revision and development process, all based on a fruitful collaboration between several departments of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, most of the township in South Tyrol, Informatica Alto Adige (SIAG - Technical partner) and the Consortium of Municipalities of the Province of Bolzano, of the new version of the integrated geographic data management system IGis Maps. In use for years in South Tyrol, has in the Consortium one of its most enthusiastic contributors and supporters. The very first version was released about eight years ago and its implementation was based on the idea of creating a multi-purpose GIS management system that could support different types of users, that was highly customizable, and, above all, that could be widely shared among the various management entities, both public and private, present within our territory. After years of use and ad-hoc developments, we can finally present the new version of the IGis Maps system, which incorporates all the technical and technological improvements we realized the system needed. It was not just a major update together with new functionalities combined inside the previous software structure, but a true re-engineering that led, among other things, to a new and more efficient user interface, a major advancement regarding the internal security, an optimization and improvement of the entire editing section as well as an optimization of the section regarding the automatic geo-processes. A mobile version is currently under development to better support any field activities, for which a very powerful option will be included, the possibility of creating special work sessions in off-line mode so as to be able to operate even in areas without a proper cellular line network coverage. Other very important peculiarities concern that the system is developed using a totally free software code and infrastructure, that a detailed documentation has been produced to ensure sustainability to any further future evolution, even in case of technical partner turnover, and finally, that by taking advantage of the high standards and levels of security access can be guaranteed to any type of user. From professional users, through dedicated access and qualifications or, using the ordinary SPID, to the private citizen. We will show examples of how different types of users and stakeholders now permanently use the system for the management of a variety of tasks related to their activities, and how it was possible to customize IGis Maps to create visualization and data management contexts that best meet their needs. We will also present a related project concerning the updating and the correction of the new technical basal cartography, built upon the new Basic Core specification, achieved through the automatic conversion implemented by the SIAG team starting from the previous National Core cartography. With the new IGis Maps it was possible to create an a

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South Tyrol Free Software Conference

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