An Innovative Semantic Solution to Turn Transport Data into EU Compliance

Semantic interoperability in the transportation sector is one of the European Commission challenges: establishing an interoperability framework enables European transport industry players to make their business applications ‘interoperate’ and provides the travelers with a new seamless travel experience, accessing a complete multimodal travel offer which connects the first and last mile to long distance journeys.

With the ultimate goal of enabling the provision of multimodal transportation services, the EU Regulation 2017/1926 [1] is requiring transport service providers (i.e., transport authorities, operators and infrastructure managers) to allow access to their data in specific data formats (e.g., NeTEx CEN/TS 16614 and SIRI CEN/TS 15531) through National Access Points. Currently, the requested data formats are rarely used, thus a data conversion is needed.

This talk presents the results of the EIT Digital project SNAP [2]. SNAP has designed and developed an innovative solution for data conversion, decreasing the time required to perform it and hiding its complexity. The SNAP solution based on Semantic Web technologies enables the conversion of complex transportation data into EU-mandated standards so that transport service providers can render their legacy data interoperable and compliant with standards using a solution fit to their needs.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32017R1926
[2] www.snap-project.eu/