1 Scope

The OpRa scope is the definition of a minimum set of Public Transport raw data needed to enable PT quantitative analysis.

OpRa does not go into the domain of service quality measurement and reporting: service quality analysis will use data provided by OpRa, but quality definition remains a contractual level issue between a Public Transport Authority and a Public Transport Operator or an operator’s internal choice for a purely private service. OpRa reports unbiased actual data (i.e. measured or observed), described and aggregated in a shared and understandable way.

OpRa focuses mainly on observed/measured and registered information, i.e. information which cannot be changed anymore in the future. This information is mainly an output of the domain “operations monitoring & control" as defined by Transmodel.

Based on the actual service, including delays and cancelled vehicle journeys, etc., OpRa considers the recorded reality of operation, either through individual observed and registered data at a given sampling interval (raw data) or in an aggregate way (indicators) and provides the data exchange format.

The approach documented in detail in this document is coherent with EU Directive 2010/40. It relates to the Article 4 of the Delegated Regulation EU 2017/1926 [16], as regards the historic data. OpRa proposes to complement NeTEx (dedicated to the static scheduled information), for the historic data, based on the underlying conceptual data reference model Transmodel EN 12896, similarly to the requirement of the Delegated Regulation EU 2017/1926 referring to the static scheduled information2.