10. HSL API developer.reittiopas.fi
Open data
Journey Planner
My Departures
Timetables
Developer.reittiopas.fi
Line Map
Disruption Info
HSL Live
Cycling and Walking
+30 Mobile apps
13. Activities
• Open APIs have been available from the beginning of
online services, but hardly no one knew it.
• First API info published widely in 2009
• Apps4Democracy competition
• Journey Planner API specs online
• Data catalogues: Suomi.fi/HRI/Data Hub Suomi
• Apps4Finland competions, 2012 partner
• HSL mobile competition
• Continuous API development
• Developer meetings > development requests
14. 670
HSL open data trend
Journey Planner developer accounts
2009-2012
480
<5 +30
apps apps
30
Sept 2009 Sept 2010 Feb 2011 Sept 2011 Sept 2012
Apps4Finland HSL Apps4Finland Apps4Finland
Automatic Mobile
account competition
management
15. HSL Mobile Competition 2011
• Total prize money 12 000 €
• Open for existing solutions and working demos
• No categories, open to all mobile applications
and services that used HSL information
• Competition period: 7th Feb – 4th of Apr 2011.
• 63 competition entries
• 17 finalists / 8 awarded
3 first prizes, 3 second prizes 2 honorary
mentions
• More info: http://hslmobiilikisa.blogspot.com/
16. ReittiGPS, 1st Prize (everyday solutions) RouteClock , 1st Prize (GUI inventions) Seutuseikkailu ,1st Prize (concepts)
Markus Halttunen / Essentia Solutions Janne Käki Tuomas Husu & team
AudioReitit , 2nd Prize Rate a Ride
(GUI inventions) 2nd Prize (concepts)
Tässä.fi 2nd Prize (everyday solutions) Juho Kostiainen Teemu Laine
Markus Tallgren & team / Addfore
Technologies
Andropas, Honorary Mention
Aki Lehtinen
Kyyti, Honorary Mention
Ilkka Pirttimaa
18. What’s in it for passengers?
• Larger service portfolio
• Solutions to special needs,
possibility to create apps to
own user groups
• Up to date services
• Value for tax money
19. HSL view
• Improves customer satisfaction
• Support to service development.
• Benchmarking
• Ideas
• Speeds up service development,
up to date technology and ideas
• Changes
• Desktop -> Mobile
• UI servers -> API servers
23. Co-operation in service development
HSL service,
powered by
Passenger feedback developer
community
HSL goals
=
Developer´s ideas
24. Invitation
• Join in HSL developer community
• Twitter: @HSLdevcom
• FB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HSL-Developer-
Community/340880875992160
• Participate HSL navigator open source project
• Project idea http://wiki.itsfactory.fi/index.php/HSL_Navigator
• Project startup plan
http://wiki.itsfactory.fi/index.php/HSL_Navigator_startup_plan
Escalators Bus
100m
stop
Passenger services department Information services 18.09.12
Good public transport services We do not sell information Our goal: our transport service and information is open to everyone. Open data supports our goals 18.09.12
Timetables Routes 150 000 users daily 60% of passengers uses internet as a primary transport information source 18.09.12
Stop timetables Real time & planned Collections of stops 18.09.12
Planned timetables 18.09.12
Lines Stop lists 18.09.12
Mostly seen via other services Email service 18.09.12
Beta stage 18.09.12
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Mak.hsl.fi First own customer solution that uses HSL api resources 18.09.12
60% of passengers uses internet as a primary transport information source 18.09.12
Open data in not open if no one knows it API service is a service like others, it needs continuous development 18.09.12
Timetables Routes 150 000 users daily 60% of passengers uses internet as a primary transport information source 18.09.12
Co-operation with Forum Virium Helsinki and sponsors 18.09.12
All major mobile platforms Windows mobile too 18.09.12
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Every 6th request comes via API Extra costs are not remarkable, but service level improvements are. 18.09.12
Is everything ready now or can we do something more 18.09.12
Lots of developers who have tried hsl data Some known persons 18.09.12
More known developers More interaction between developers and with HSL 18.09.12
Passenger user feedback and user needs HSL business goals Development ideas 18.09.12
Community building is in the beginning. Everyone can participate 18.09.12