D6.8-Investigation of standards in Public Transport and gap analysis (Alpha Release)

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This deliverable is developed as part of Task 6.7 within Work Package 6 (WP6) of the EU-Rail FP6 FutuRe project, a strategic initiative aimed at revitalizing regional railway networks across Europe. WP6 is dedicated to the specification phase, laying the groundwork for the solutions that will later be implemented and demonstrated by WP11. Task 6.7 aims to foster the standardization processes within the EU. It therefore identifies which data interfaces between components are necessary to provide the information which power the multimodal travel solutions designed in WP6. It analyses if standard interfaces specifications are used and if they already fulfil completely the requirements. If no standard interface specification is available, it is assessed if a standardization process for this interface is advisable. The focus was hereby put on the data exchange between different system components and therefore on data interface specifications. For task 6.7, it was envisaged that it will develop an alpha release of the final deliverable. The final version will be developed by task 11.7. During the work on the alpha release, in total six data interfaces / data formats were identified where it might be advisable to amend existing standard data specifications or create new specifications. For the final release, a more detailed gap analysis will be elaborated.