Standardisation is actually one of the most important factor to improve company performance, for every branch of industry, to define functional features of a product and interchanging protocols with other systems. This report describes the standard adopted by European Committee for Standardisation for the Reference Data Model for Public Transport (TRANSMODEL) and its implementation by the Trieste transit company ACT. TRANSMODEL, describing the data of interest to public transport companies in a standard way, will considerably facilitate the design of integrated information handling systems in the public transport domain. This standard is open to any hardware platform.
ACT is the first Italian transit company that have chosen TRANSMODEL like a backbone for his company-wide information system renewal.
