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Jon Worth Oct 4, 2023

Public transport journey planning has a public purpose - get people efficiently to their destination.

This planning function *might* not have financial compensation - there might be no ticket sale involved.

The likes of Trainline then have very little incentive as I see it to provide excellent journey planning. But if they can’t, and the likes of DB won’t, internationally… then who can?

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David Jaša

@jon this is an essence of a long fight between seznam.cz against transport ministry & then-private operator of Idos, with ministry in penny-wise pound-foolish way insisting on Idos/chaps only having to provide freely just human-readable static schedules and Idos the web interface because it did the data gathering & processing for free...