Open IT architecture and interoperability

The non-profit association ITxPT enables an open architecture, data accessibility and interoperability between IT systems. The members of ITxPT develop the IT architecture for public transport and other mobility services together, based on standards and best practices.

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About us

ITxPT is a non-profit association open to all companies and organizations with an interest in developing public transport into the most efficient, sustainable and attractive means of travel. Its members are a mix of industry, operators and authorities from all over the world. 

The mission of the ITxPT Association is to enable interoperability between IT systems in Public Transport by offering public specification of an IT architecture based on standards with open interfaces for on-board, over-the-air and back-office IT systems.

The ITxPT governance is fairly shared between decision makers (public transport authorities and operators) and industry (vehicle manufacturers and IT suppliers).

Governance

Together with our members, we work on public transport interoperability in an international context, creating and improving bridges between existing or missing models, gathering best practices and designing specifications for a concrete interoperable implementation.

The governance of ITxPT is simple, transparent and democratic, based on its statutes as a non-profit association, composed of the entities described below which follow operating rules driven by functional needs and aiming at providing effective implementation specifications. The ITxPT association is funded by membership fees.

  • The ITxPT statutes 
  • The Executive Board
  • The Requirements and Technical Committees

The ITxPT Executive Board

The ITxPT Executive Board is composed of 13 voting members fairly balanced between Public Transport authorities and operators, IT suppliers, and vehicle manufacturers.

Public Transport authorities and operators

  • Barry Dorgan, NATIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, IRELAND
  • Erik Thoren, NOBINA
  • Terje Storhaug, RUTER – Chairman of the Board
  • Sture Hedin, VASTTRAFIK
  • Steve Robinson, LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, SINGAPORE
  • Vincent Malhomme, TRANSPORTS PUBLICS DE LAUSANNE

Association

  • Umberto Guida, UITP

IT suppliers

  • Gunnar Rehbein, INIT
  • Marcus Berglund, PILOTFISH
  • Patrik Nilsson, LUMINATOR TECHNOLOGY GROUP

Vehicle manufacturers

  • Charanya Thangaraj, VOLVO BUSES
  • Philip Janouch, DAIMLER BUSES
  • Philippe Grand, IVECO BUS

All the ITxPT Strategic members are invited to join the
Executive Board meetings.

The ITxPT Committees and Working Groups

The ITxPT association is the only technical organisation offering a forum to discuss and work on hot topics concerning all public transport stakeholders: interoperability, data-centric architecture, data mining, electric vehicles, IoT, MQTT, smart industry, MaaS, new transport modes, data exchange, protocols…

All the Strategic and Principal members have access to the Requirements and Technical Committees, and their related Working Groups. The ITxPT Governance Process, from customer need to detailed specification:

ITxPT committees

2025 Active Working Groups

Working groups are currently focusing on developing the next generation of specifications based on MQTT broker (S04), including:

  • Vehicle location (GNSS data, micro-positioning)
  • Logon data
  • Operation data
  • Passenger data
  • Cyber security
  • Vehicle readiness data
  • Vehicle diagnostics data

The update of hardware specifications (S01) covers:

  • Power management
  • Various modes of transport profiles
  • Electric vehicle and infrastructure
  • Vehicle and equipment split

Coming next...

  • Heavy Rail service profile
  • Signal traffic light priority
  • Multimodal Integrated Ticketing
  • Demand Responsive Transport
  • Communication channels – status reporting

Activity reports

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2019

The ITxPT team

The ITxPT team mission is to enable the ITxPT community to successfully build and improve the ITxPT specification and adoption.
  • Anders Selling, Secretary General
  • Anastasia Founta, Requirements Committee Chair
  • Anders Fromell, Chief Technical Officer
  • Clara Arnström, Technical Writer
  • David Ariño Montoya, Project Manager
  • David Glendining, Interoperability Architect
  • Emmanuel de Verdalle, Technical Committee Chair
  • Jim Lindkvist, Laboratory Manager
  • Pascale Guyot, Members Relations
  • Simon Reed, PTA/O Relations

Contact us

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