Overview

Public transport services rely increasingly on information systems to ensure reliable, efficient operation and widely accessible, accurate passenger information. These systems are used for a range of specific purposes: setting schedules and timetables, managing vehicle fleets, issuing tickets and receipts, providing real time information on service running, and so on. “Transmodel” is the short name for …

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A specification which cites Transmodel needs to include comparisons of the specification against the Transmodel reference data model in at least two conformance levels: level 1 (the global level) identifies which data domains within the specification are drawn from the Transmodel data domains, and which are not; level 2 (the detailed level) compares the data …

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Transmodel may be applied to any framework for information systems within the public transport industry, but there are three circumstances to which it is particularly suited: specification of an organisation’s ‘information architecture’ specification of a database specification of a data exchange interface Specification of Information Architecture An ‘information architecture’ refers to the overall structure of …

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The normative Public Transport Reference Data Model (Transmodel) covers Network topology representation, Scheduling, Operation monitoring, Fare management, Passenger information and Driver management information domains. Transmodel has to be viewed in the context of the European ITS Directive 2010/40/E (in particular the Priority Action A,  supplementing the European Directive 2010/40/EU  with regard to the provision of EU-wide multimodal travel information …

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The purpose of the Transmodel Standard Public transport services rely increasingly on information systems to ensure reliable, efficient operation and widely accessible, accurate passenger information. These systems are used for a range of specific purposes: setting schedules and timetables, managing vehicle fleets, issuing tickets and receipts, providing real time information on service running, and so …

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