How to keep up with the changes of SIRI and GTFS Realtime?

You want to broadcast your data in both SIRI and GTFS Realtime (aka GTFS-RT)? You want to ensure that your real-time data comply with the latest changes in the norms and standards? Trust a software that does it for you in one single click. Let us explain.

SIRI and GTFS Realtime are always evolving

Both SIRI and GTFS Realtime are constantly evolving in order to:

🛗🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒: better take into account all operational changes in public transport (e.g.new transport modes, facility monitoring, occupancy etc.),
💭: adapt to the needs of the stakeholders who use them for their data exchanges,
🔁: learn from the best practices created by each other.

And these changes are always based on:

🔎 needs expressed by the industry,
🛠️ work done by their communities,
👥 consensus built between all stakeholders.

OK, but does it mean that I have to change everything?

If your software is built to natively broadcast your data in both SIRI and GTFS Realtime, it will follow (or should follow closely) all the changes made in the norms and standards, so you do not have to worrry about it.

Also you can enrich your real-time information thanks to some of the new fields and services available in the latest versions of the norms and standards. For example, with SIRI and the Facility Monitoring services: everyone would love to know if the lifts are out of service or not.

With Ara SaaS, broadcast in both formats from a single interface

In Ara SaaS, you can set up many data broadcasts in either GTFS Realtime or SIRI, at no extra cost: all you need to do is check in the user interface the settings and real-time services the data consumer is expecting. Also, you do not need to follow the changes in both SIRI and GTFS Realtime; our team does it for you. For example, you can easily set a SIRI broadcast to your NAP and simply select which formats you want.