Article 1, Point (2) · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/490

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(2)Article 2 is replaced by the following:‘Article 2DefinitionsFor the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Article 4 of Directive 2010/40/EU and in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 shall apply.The following definitions, with respect to multimodal travel and traffic information, shall also apply:

(1)“multimodal travel information” means information derived from any static, historic, observed or dynamic travel and traffic data, or any combination thereof, for end users, provided through any communication means, covering at least two modes of transport and allowing the possibility to compare transport modes;

(2)“travel information service” means an ITS service, including digital maps, that provides data users, and end users, with travel and traffic information of at least one transport mode;

(3)“dynamic travel and traffic data” means data relating to different transport modes that change often, or data on unexpected events or circumstances, as listed in the Annex;

(4)“static travel and traffic data” means data relating to different transport modes that do not change often, or data on planned changes, as listed in the Annex;

(5)“historic travel and traffic data” means data relating to traffic characteristics, used to calculate average delays, depending on the hour, day and season, which is based on previous measurements, including rate of congestion, average speeds, and average travel times;

(6)“observed data” means operational data related to travel and traffic, such as the length of and reason for delays and cancellations, resulting from and collected during service operations;

(7)“data user” means any public or private entity, such as transport authorities, transport operators, travel information service providers, digital map producers, transport on demand service providers and infrastructure managers, or any other entity using data listed in the Annex to create multimodal travel information, or where provided by the terms and conditions determined by the data holder, using the data for other purposes;

(8)“transport authority” means any public authority responsible for the traffic management or the planning, control or management of a given transport network or transport service, or both, falling within its territorial competence;

(9)“transport operator” means any public or private entity that is responsible for the maintenance and management of the transport service;

(10)“transport on demand service provider” means any public or private provider of transport on demand service to end users;

(11)“data holder” means any legal person, public or private entity, such as transport authorities, transport operators, infrastructure managers or transport on demand service providers, who has the right to grant access to or to share the data under its control, listed in the Annex, in accordance with applicable Union or national law;

(12)“transport on demand service” means a service which requires interaction between the transport on demand service provider and the end user before delivery;

(13)“end user” means any natural or legal person who has access to travel information services;

(14)“metadata” means a structured description of the contents of the data facilitating the discovery and use of the data;

(15)“routing result” means the travel itinerary in a digital machine-readable format resulting from an end users’ journey request with reference to the handover point or points used;

(16)“handover point” means the station, stop or location at which two travel information services’ routing results are linked to produce a journey;

(17)“access point” means a digital interface where data listed in the Annex together with the corresponding metadata are made accessible for reuse to data users, or where the sources and metadata of those data are made accessible for reuse to data users;

(18)“data update” means any modification of the existing data, including its deletion or the insertion of new or additional elements;

(19)“discovery service” means a service allowing for the search of the requested data using the contents of the corresponding metadata and displaying such contents;

(20)“accessibility of the data” means the possibility to request and obtain the data at any time in a digital machine-readable format;

(21)“comprehensive trans-European transport network” or “TEN-T” means the transport infrastructure and measures referred to in Article 6(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;

(22)“timeliness of data” means the availability of up to date data provided to data users and end users sufficiently in advance to be useful;

(23)“travel information service provider” means any public or private provider of at least one travel and traffic information, to data users and end users, excluding a mere converter of information;

(24)“linking of service” means the connection of local, regional, and national travel information services which are interlinked via technical interfaces to provide routing results or other application programming interfaces (APIs) results based on static, historic, observed and/or dynamic travel and traffic data;

(25)“access node” means a pre-defined location where passengers may board or leave scheduled transport or transport on demand.’

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