Abstract Summary
eHUBS are on-street locations that bring together e-bikes, e-cargo bikes, e-scooters and/or e-cars, offering users a wide range of options to experiment and use in various situations. The idea is to give a high-quality and diverse offer of shared electric mobility services to dissuade citizens from owning private cars, resulting in a cleaner, more liveable and pleasant cities. The eHUBS project has worked together closely with the TOMP-API Working Group on a technical standard interface for communication between Transport Operators and MaaS Providers while keeping the needs of the public authorities and cities in close consideration. The TOMP-API allows all participating companies to communicate about planning, booking, execution, support, general information and payments of multimodal, end-user specific trips. This TOMP-API environment ensures growth in opportunities for interoperability between multiple parties. The presentation is going to show the importance of this standardisation and the power of the TOMP-API in optimizing data flows between Transport Operators and Maas Providers. Within the eHUBS project, we have created a kiosk application that presents travellers with a clear and understandable overview of (realtime) travel options & information within the direct vicinity of the eHUB, even when they don’t have access to a smartphone. This is achieved by collecting and interpreting data of the Transport Operators providing their services nearby the eHUB point, of course in close cooperation with the local authorities. Because of the local character, the data-sources and quality differ immensely. Some hubs are in densely connection urban areas, but they can also be situated in more rural surroundings. This application is what will be used to illustrate the strength of the TOMP-API, it will show how easy and fast it can be to implement new transport options and make it available directly. Especially when compared to the tedious process of combing to endless API descriptions and data-formats trying to find some unity and ways to reliably incorporate this. Supporting local Transport Operators in adopting this standard will be an important step forward for the digitalisation of the infrastructure in an effective and sustainable manner. The presentation will be hands-on and despite its technical nature, accessible and understandable for a broad audience.
