TransportAPI talk for geomob at BCS in Jan 2014

1. Opening up access to UK
transport data
David Mountain
david.mountain@transportapi.com
transportapi.com
@transportapi

2. Who we are
• Placr Ltd: SME based in Shoreditch
– Dave Mountain, Jonathan Raper, Harry
Wood, Emer Coleman and Tom Ward
• Transport API:
– Open transport data service
– First round funding in 2013

3. What we do
• API endpoints for timetabled and live for
bus and rail data
• 370K stop/stations with 50Gb live data
• Journey planning: public and private
• JSON, XML, HTML formats
• Aggregation and integration
• API authentication and monitoring
(3Scale)

5. Open data
• Part of the Open Data Institute startup
program
• Campaigning for the release of transport
data
• Aim to be a one-stop shop for UK
transport data
• Easier for developers to integrate transport
data into apps
• Innovation

6. Who’s using it?
TFL
Overground

7. CityMapper
• London’s most popular
travel app
• TransportAPI supplying
the back end for rail data

8. Heathrow (May 2014)

9. Travel portal developed
with ELGIN

10. UK TravelOptions
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3D perspective of OSM
Display/search POIs
Tap thru to transport info
Tube performance
indicators
• iOS / iPad

11. 2013 growth

12. How to get it
Sign up for an account a transportapi.com
1000 hits per day free (sandbox)
Then £1 for 2.5k – 10k hits
Or partner with us?
No reservation of
downstream usage
rights
wishlist

13. Performance
• Tube performance indicators
• Real travel time through London bus networ

14. Dashboards

15. Transport Buzz
• Transport data is one side of the story
• But how do people experience this
• TransportBuzz (beta): web app developed
toexplore this
• Stores and analyses transport related
tweets
• About 5% of these are geolocated

24. We’re hiring
• Lots of ideas of what to do next
• Looking for developers:
– Ruby + server-side;
– Web design + front-end;
– Experience of transport indy
• Flexible: PT / FT; temp / perm

25. Talk to us!
Dave
@davidmountain
Jonathan
@madprof
Harry
@harry_wood
Tom
@themadwort
Emer
@emercoleman
transportapi.com
@transportapi