DD CEN ISO/TS 24530-4:2006 PDF

1   Scope This document establishes the XML encoding of the method of the Public Transport Information application. The Public Transport Information Application is intended to cover all modes of public (ie collective) transport as well as inter-urban and intra-urban travel. The application itself is designed to allow the efficient and language independent transmission of public transport information either directly to an end-user, be it the public or another service provider, such as broadcasters, service operators or other information disseminating points or centres for onward transmission.

TPEG - PTI aims at describing “legs” of a journey also described as “rides” by other methodologies. However, it is important to note that TPEG - PTI is not limited to describing single services, because it also allows the more general description of route, service and area wide problems. Public (or collective) transport information is usually consumed in one of four principle ways, and in TPEG - PTI these are labelled views, they are somewhat an analogue to:

       -  Leader board information as used at stations or terminals

       -  A report on the state of a network

       -  The description of an individual service