Placr aggregates real-time transport data from various sources and provides it through their TransportAPI service. TransportAPI makes vast amounts of transport data available to developers through a cloud-based API. It currently provides data on trains, buses, and the London Underground and has over 250 developers signed up. TransportAPI enables new transport applications and solutions by allowing developers access to real-time and historical transport data.

1. Disruptive open transport data
http://transportapi.com
Jonathan Raper
CEO, Placr

2. Placr/TransportAPI
• Placr is an SME founded in 2010 & based at ODI
• TransportAPI is our open transport data service
• Aggregates timetables, departures& infrastructure
• We record everything that moves, all the time
• We create performance indicators eg late train map
• We are a transport data service/ solution house
• Target markets in travel, media, local government
• Supply feeds to operators, web & app developers
• Enabling new transport propositions

3. transportapi.com
• Launched with Traveline and
Network Rail feeds last year
• Scalable cloud-based service
• Web or developer output
• Sign up/ get access online- 250++
developers signed up
• Free use up 1000 hits per day
• Charges for hosting, volume &
guarantees
• http://developer.transportapi.com/

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6. Transport performance
• Transport data can be embedded in web widget
• London Underground performance indicators
• Real travel time through London bus network
• Train lateness maps across country

7. Hyperlocal widget
• Embed transport
info in websites
• 600 sites are live

8. Historic data
• Recording data streams on
tube, bus and train
• Storing and structuring them
• Making historic data available
through TransportAPI
• Producing indicators from the
historic data

9. Travel portal developed with ELGIN

10. Analysing user requests for
departure information
• Mapping London Countdown live bus
departure requests
• Analysing app users requests and
subsequent behaviour
• Building anonymised user profiles
Yellow: weekday
Red: weekend

11. Transport social media gathering

12. Sentiment analysis
• Local Twitter search eg bus+driver for “London”
• Volume of comments to services by hour/day etc
• Early warning for problems, CRM tool…

13. CityMapper
• London’s most popular travel app
• TransportAPI supplying the back
end for rail data
• Accuracy, latency are paramount
• Looking for guarantees &
management of liabilities

14. Ready to integrate
• REST endpoints for timetables, departures
• Performance indicators by mode, location
• Infrastructure downloads
• Historic datasets
• Federated API with cyclestreets, traintaxi etc
• 3Scale API platform with authentication
• Scalable delivery
• eCommerce solution
• Developer community now at work

15. Contact
http://transportapi.com/
jonathan.raper@placr.co.uk
@Madprof