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2 www. TransportForIreland. ie NaPTAN National Public Transport Access Nodes dataset StopArea - Stop

3 www. TransportForIreland. ie NaPTAN & NPTG National Public Transit Access Nodes National Public Transport Gazetteer database NaPTAN establishes a unique national identifier for every PT stopping place and is guided by a naming convention for stops based on locality

4 www. TransportForIreland. ie Why have a stops database? The National Journey Planner Real Time passenger information apps Used across all PT modes in Ireland Common & unique way of describing and referencing stops Create once / re-use many Spatial hooks for Timetable Data Bus licensing and PT Regulation activities

Provides a unique British Isles identifier to every PT stop. Well used and understood in industry.

5 www. TransportForIreland. ie Why use NaPTAN & NPTG? UK specifications but aligning to prcen standard IFOPT. Provides a unique British Isles identifier to every PT stop. Well used and understood in industry. Supported by off-the-shelf systems. Used in Northern Ireland facilitates cross border data sharing and journey planning. Foundation of TransXchange schedule data. Kelly s Ashbourne NaPTAN 8310B

6 www. TransportForIreland. ie NaPTAN Ireland main points A data specification for uniquely identifying and naming Public Transport Access Nodes which is guided by the related NPTG specification. A database of all the PT access points in the Republic of Ireland. An XML Schema for exchanging stop data as XML documents describing the content. An exchange format for exchanging stop data as csv files.

7 www. TransportForIreland. ie NaPTAN Ireland StopArea; Stop NaPTAN has a grouping hierarchy StopArea = Busáras StopArea = Busáras Bus station Entrance Concourse stops StopArea = Busáras Tram Stop Ticket machine /concourse Stops

8 www. TransportForIreland. ie Coverage Republic of Ireland + places where our PT stops in Northern Ireland

9 www. TransportForIreland. ie NPTG hierarchy <Country>Eire</Country> <RegionCode>LEI</RegionCode> <Name xml:lang="en">leinster</name> <AtcoAreaCode>831</AtcoAreaCode> <Name>Meath</Name> <National>false</National> <NptgLocalityCode>E </NptgLocalityCode> <Descriptor> <LocalityName >Ashbourne</LocalityName> </Descriptor> Kelly s, E , false, 831, LEI, EIRE Kelly s, Ashbourne, Co. Meath, Ireland.

10 www. TransportForIreland. ie NPTG features are points not polygons <NptgLocalityCode>E </NptgLocalityCode> <Descriptor> <LocalityName xml:lang="en">ashbourne</localityname> </Descriptor> <AdministrativeAreaRef>831</AdministrativeAreaRef> <Location> <Translation> <GridType>IrishTM</GridType> <Easting>706296</Easting> <Northing>752437</Northing> </Translation> </Location> </NptgLocality>

11 www. TransportForIreland. ie How to assign NPTG Reference to Stops? GIS tools didn t work Spatial joins were too crude Names of stops were not uniformly consistent with a place (Kelly s Pub) No postcodes boundaries for Ireland Heuston Station, Arbour Hill?!

12 www. TransportForIreland. ie Address is approximate Where does Rathgar end and Harold s Cross start? Does the Divider between Dartry and Rathmines run down the middle of a street or through a block of houses? Marino, Fairview, Clontarf? --- Any ideas? Is all of the Phoenix Park in Dublin 8? What is the Locality of Camden Street called? Postcodes would help!

13 INSPIRE? INSPIRE Data Specification for Transport Networks Version 3 does not align with PrCEN IFOPT (identification of fixed object in public transport) DFT UK NaPTAN NaPTAN INSPIRE RoadServiceType BusStation StopArea StopPoint OnStreet TimingStatus BusStopType BCT MKD

14 NPTG NPTDb National Public Transport Database NaPTAN Schedules NPTDb

15 www. TransportForIreland. ie national journey web application & smartphone app planner

16 national few national intermodal Journey planners Journey.fi (Finland) Resrobot.se (Sweden) Rutebok.no (Norway) 9292.nl/ (Holland) rejseplanen.dk (Denmark) transportdirect.info (Great Britain)

17 timeline Work commenced September 6th 2011 Launched 27th June 2012 Calculated over 40,000 PT trips on first 2 days after launch System provider & management project consultant spatial data acquisition & management

19 Download the free app The love story

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