RATP refuses to provide real-time traffic information to CityMapper

Technological evolution is not mandatory taste from everyone. From this statement it can be assumed that this refusal is mainly reserved for the elderly, who are generally less vigilant about it, and do not want to shake their habits too much. . . .

… And yet that goes for big companies as well. And especially RatThe one who manages public transport in the Paris region and above all is not ready to open their real-time data to private players.

Of course, schedules for buses, trains and other subways are accessible to everyone and therefore available to everyone in the context of their application. But this does not necessarily apply to knowledge. real time (delays, events, availability) that RATP simply wants to keep within itself, despite the explicit data imperatives set forth by Emmanuel Macron’s law of growth.

Frustrated by such a closure, which was only about Paris and the rest of France complying with these requirements, developer CityMapper decided to launch it. an online petition force change.

But RATP isn’t fighting against technological advancement, even as one of the companies that creates transportation tickets stored on phones: it’s just concerned about “what hotels experience with Booking.com and losing their relationship with their customers.” Franck Avice grades in Europe 1Service and customer relations manager at RATP.

A concern that may well be justified, as the emergence of smartphones and app stores will have had a strong impact. competition on this industry

So this question raises two problems: the associated utility or the exclusivity of a service’s data, which in the example should force RATP to offer the best possible practices. Paris transport public propertyso it can be argued in favor of open data.