Helsinki Metropolitan Transportation Authority's New Journey Planner

henke54 · April 13, 2017, 4:50pm

HELSINKI, FINLAND–(Marketwired - April 13, 2017) - The Helsinki metropolitan transportation authority, Helsinki Region Transport HSL, has released a new version of its Journey Planner. The service is exceptional among similar trip planners worldwide in that it is based on open-source code. Thus the ongoing development of the Journey Planner can be a collaborative activity joined by developers, the general public, and other cities’ transportation authorities. Among others, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority MTA is testing the source code.

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The Journey Planner has been developed using the principles of open data and open-source code, with open interfaces. It utilizes available open-source code routing tools.The maps are based on OpenStreetMap, which is a crowdsourced map site. All Journey Planner data is available as open data, so any public- or private-sector actor can use it to develop new digital services.

Open-source software development means that the work goes on. “The Journey Planner will never be fully complete; it will be continuously developed, largely with the help of feedback from customers,” says Jari Honkonen, who leads the work at HSL.

The Journey Planner is one of the most popular digital services in Finland with 150,000 daily users in HSL’s service area of one million residents.

Journey Planner of Helsinki Region Transport HSL: https://www.reittiopas.fi/