Building the Public Transportation Open Data Center
Public Transportation Open Data Center provides the data from the public transportation operators participating in Association for Open Data of Public Transportation as a one-stop service to general developers, ICT vendors, etc.
- The Center supports data including real-time data from railway, bus and airline operators.
- Cleansed data in common JSON format is provided via REST API.
- Data in GTFS format, mainly bus service is provided.
The Center has been operated since 2019 to contribute to smooth public transportation during 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Starting with data related to railway and bus provided by Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Center intends to offer more data in the future.
To developers
— Developing services and apps that use public transportation open data
To use public transportation open data, register yourself on the Public Transportation Open Data Center Developers Site. Once your registration is complete, you can use public transportation data according to the API specification on the Developers Site.
The public transportation data shall be used in accordance with the usage conditions displayed at the developers site.
Public Transportation Open Data Center Developers Site。
→ Public Transportation Open Data Center Developers Site
The public transportation data published by Public Transportation Open Data Center is available on the following Catalog Site.
→ Public Transportation Open Data Center Catalog Site
ICT stakeholder can participate in the discussion on the Public Transportation Open Data Center by joining the Association for Open Data of Public Transportation.
Can participate in discussions on the terms of use of data and API specification, and can make a proposal to public transportation operators by participating in the WG.
→ Association for Open Data of Public Transportation
To public transportation operators
— Publishing public transportation data
If you consider publishing transportation data, please join the Association for Open Data of Public Transportation. We will help you to deliver your public transportation data to developers all over the world.
Bus operations who have prepared the data in GTFS format according to MLIT’s standard bus information format are encouraged to contact us. Publishing data as open data at this Center shall let it reach many service developers including travel path search operators.
→ http://www.mlit.go.jp/sogoseisaku/transport/sosei_transport_tk_000067.html
Transportation operators who provide data without charge will be exempted from paying the membership fee. Please feel free to contact us for details.
→ Association for Open Data of Public Transportation