Railways and Open Transport
DB InfraGO's OpenStation: NeTEx + SIRI for railway stations
<p>In late 2025, <a href="https://dbinfrago.com">DB InfraGO</a> - Germany's state owned operator of railway infrastructure - released its <a href="https://github.com/dbinfrago/openstation-docs">“OpenStation“ API</a>, the new single source of truth for train station data. The API (or as some users have put it: "glorified collection of XML files") is based on the european <a href="https://netex-cen.eu">NeTEx</a> and <a href="https://siri-cen.eu">SIRI</a> standards, and its contents are released as CC0 (public domain), a first for Deutsche Bahn.</p>
<p>In this talk, we want to share our experiences with NeTEx and SIRI from a data producer's perspective, highlight some benefits and challenges of our new API, explain its intended role within the transport data ecosystem, and discuss our future plans for OpenStation. Last but not least, we would like to hear your thoughts and feedback on our new API.</p>
Weitere Infos
| Live Stream | https://live.fosdem.org/watch/k3601 |
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| Format | devroom |
| Sprache | Englisch |
Weitere Sessions
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<p>The organizing team of the Devroom welcomes you to the Railways and Open Transport room. Exciting content lies ahead.</p>
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<p>European transport systems are adopting standards such as DATEX II, NeTEx and SIRI, but developers struggle to discover existing tools, validators, converters, and libraries. We're launching Awesome NAPCORE Tools (awesome.napcore.eu) - a community-curated registry of open source tools for European mobility data. This talk introduces the platform and invites the open source community to contribute. We'll cover:</p> <ul> <li>The European mobility data landscape and key standards</li> ...
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<p>Despite EU-level initiatives, the availability and quality of open data on public transport differs wildly between member states. I'll talk about the situation in the Czech Republic from the perspective of someone who's been fighting for data availability for the last 5 years.</p> <p>We'll focus mostly on timetables, briefly covering the history of the Czech Republic's centralised system, the current state of affairs after multiple lawsuits, and the (hopefully) rosy future. I'll also talk ...
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<p>In this talk, I will present why and how I started writing Bimba, a public transport application for my city back in 2017. The talk will show major turning points in the journey: when the city started providing open data, when Bimba no longer worked in single place, when Transitous was integrated enabling not only global coverage but also global routing, and meeting people and ideas during last year's RaOT track at FOSDEM and the first Open Transport unconference. I will also present ...
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