- access node
means a pre-defined location where passengers may board or leave scheduled transport or transport on demand.’
- 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;
- accessibility of the data
means the possibility to request and obtain the data at any time in a digital machine-readable format;
- 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;
- data update
means any modification of the existing data, including its deletion or the insertion of new or additional elements;
- 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;
- discovery service
means a service allowing for the search of the requested data using the contents of the corresponding metadata and displaying such contents;
- 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;
- end user
means any natural or legal person who has access to travel information services;
- handover point
means the station, stop or location at which two travel information services’ routing results are linked to produce a journey;
- 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;
- 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;
- metadata
means a structured description of the contents of the data facilitating the discovery and use of the data;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- timeliness of data
means the availability of up to date data provided to data users and end users sufficiently in advance to be useful;
- 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;
- transport on demand service
means a service which requires interaction between the transport on demand service provider and the end user before delivery;
- transport on demand service provider
means any public or private provider of transport on demand service to end users;
- transport operator
means any public or private entity that is responsible for the maintenance and management of the transport service;
- 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;
- 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;