ACTIVE SECTOR ASSOCIATION - IN DIALOGUE WITH POLITICS AND ECONOMY

About 600 companies performing public passenger transport and rail freight transport in Germany are organised in the “Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen” (VDV = Association of German Transport Companies). The VDV advises and supports its member companies and politicians, supports the exchange of experience and know-how between the members and prepares technical, operational, legal and economic principles.

The VDV also represents the interests of its member companies towards parliaments, authorities, industry and other institutions. Therefore, the VDV has offices in Brussels (European office) and Berlin (capital office) besides its head office in Cologne.

The regional interests of the member companies are defended by nine regional groups. Moreover, sixgeneral committees and 19 expert committees are dealing with the special challenges of the sector. More than 400 experts in very different fields do voluntary work in these committees, which results in rules (VDV Recommendations and VDV Reports).

The VDV has existed in its present form since the beginning of 1991 as the Association of Public Transport Companies (VÖV), the Federal Association of German Railways, Motorized Traffic and Funicular Railways (BDE) and the VÖV of the former German Democratic Republic merged to the VDV. The history of the VDV began with the foundation of the Association of Prussian Railways in 1846 and the foundation of the Association of German Tramway and Light Railway Administrations in 1895.

Mitgliedernavigation

OJP

Open Journey Planer

Over the past decade Distributed Journey Planning has been shown in three European systems to provide a way to extend the range of local or regional public transport information systems to cover much wider geographical areas. So the experience of the UK’s JourneyWeb, the German DELFI and the north European EU-Spirit systems have been brought together to develop an Open API for distributed journey planning, based on an extension of the German TRIAS schema.

This work has created a European (CEN) Technical Specification entitled “Intelligent transport systems - Public transport - Open API for distributed journey planning”. This has now been approved, and has been published as CEN/TS 17118:2017. It should be available through all European national Standards bodies.

Schema XSD
This page provides access to the latest Schema XSD files to facilitate work by those wishing to implement the standard described in the published Technical Specification.

Claus Dohmen

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