Open Data Hub Day 2025

Public Transportation travel planning in Regione Liguria/Liguria Digitale: from proprietary data/platforms to Open Data/Open Source
2025-05-30 , Seminar room 3

From proprietary data/formats to Open Source/Open Data: from IVU/Hacon to OTP/Digitransit

A bit of history and the reasons of choice

Open Source: using OTP and Digitransit-UI; architecture of LiguriaGO (regional travel planner) and MOBIMART (cross-regions travel planner)

Open Data: GTFS, quality issues, common problems and how we cope with them

RAP (Regional Access Point) Liguria

GTFS2NeTEx-converter and RAP Liguria

Using NeTEx Italian Profile with OTP: the results achieved and those to be achieved

The new Regione Liguria Open Data Portal

Roadmap 2025 and beyond

An OTP versions journey: from 1.5 to 2.1 to the latest versions

Travel planning evolution towards MaaS: flexible/demand-responsive, vehicle sharing, parking

Travel planning and e-ticketing: a happy marriage

The front-end dilemma: Digitransit-UI or otp-react-redux, a comparison

My name is Roberto.
I started working in ICT in the mid-eighties (no mouse yet, believe it or not).
I spent fifteen years working in Geographical Information Systems as a programmer and analyst, putting to work my background in geodesy and geosciences.
In the early 2000s I discovered the world of Public Transportation Systems and since then that’s the focus of my job.
Over the years I’ve worked on:
- Travel-planning applications (back-end systems and web apps)
- Data collection/data quality
- Quantitative analysis of PT networks
- Transit e-ticketing systems (analysis of smart card standards and data models, e-payment models)

Currently I’m leading the development of LiguriaGO, Regione Liguria travel planner aimed at becoming the cornerstone of a broader Regional MaaS platform, including payment systems and micromobility information.
I strongly believe in the importance of adopting data standards on a European scale, both for Public Authorities and Private Agencies.