National Distribution System, based on the standard OSDM-Online
Samtrafiken's National Distribution System, was launched on March 5 2024. It is the first system in Europe to embrace the open and international standard OSDM-Online. With this competition-neutral standard, all producers have the opportunity to connect and the system will be connected to several booking platforms.
This advancement brings significant benefits for travelers, simplifying access, planning, and booking for train journeys with various traffic operators, including competing companies, within Sweden and eventually throughout Europe.
With the help of this solution, all public transport providers will be able to make their ticket products accessible and combinable for retailers through the Samtrafiken DISTRIBUTION service. Both producers and retailers will have the ability to access the national product range through the Samtrafiken ACCESS service.
Samtrafiken DISTRIBUTION
Discover the benefits of Samtrafiken DISTRIBUTION, an innovative service that enables transportation companies to easily and smoothly upload their public transportation offerings for sale through travel agencies. With a comprehensive solution for ticket distribution and sales, Samtrafiken provides an efficient system with various components, including the sales tool Samtrafiken TRAID and communication based on the international standard OSDM.
Samtrafiken ACCESS
Samtrafiken ACCESS takes public transportation sales to the next level. Immediate access to a wide range of tickets from leading transportation companies in Sweden. With travel search, OSDM API, and sales tools, Samtrafiken ACCESS offers smooth management of the ticket inventory for easy and efficient sales.
Resplus
Through the Resplus service, all public transport authorities (PTAs) and commercial operators offer their products to be sold via a distributed booking system with a multimodal journey planner displaying long-distance rail, bus coaches, urban public transport, and ferries. The products can be combined and sold as through-tickets, labeled with the name Resplus. These tickets are sold by train operators, travel agents, and other resellers in Sweden and internationally. The total turnover is 2.5 billion SEK, with approximately 6 million through-tickets consisting of 15 million segments sold annually.
To achieve Resplus coordination and administration, the following steps are required:
- All stops, services, timetables, and interchange times in Sweden are stored in a national database managed by Samtrafiken and used by resellers in their journey planners.
- Changes of attributes, products, and timetables in operators’ and PTAs’ repositories must be coordinated in the booking system.
- The Swedish content for booked journeys is distributed through one API and sales client licenses.
- Rules for passengers’ rights when traveling with Resplus need to be governed and communicated to all members of staff of the operators and PTAs.
- Central administration of settlements ensures that ticket sales are channeled to the operators and the PTAs.
Resplus terms and conditions
The nationwide ticket cooperation makes travelling though all of Sweden seamless and the operators the PTAs have signed a common agreement with guaranteed interchanges ensuring a safe journey.
Together with the Swedish Consumer Agency Samtrafiken has aligned the Resplus terms and conditions with the EU Regulation 2021/782 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations. This includes presenting guidelines on how Resplus shall be displayed in connection with the purchase of a Resplus journey. This must be implemented by all distributors and sales channels selling Resplus journeys. Read more about the guidelines.
Trafiklab
Trafiklab.se is a platform for open public transport data. Here, third-party developers can take part of all the information – both static and dynamic – that public transport generates daily, free of charge. By taking part of the data, anyone with ideas and programming skills can develop a service, for example, a website or an app, that makes it easier, faster, smarter or more comfortable to use public transport.
Trafiklab was founded in 2011 in collaboration with Samtrafiken, SL, and RISE Viktoria. With the help of Trafiklab, Samtrafiken has pursued the issue of open data as an important driver of innovation in society. We have also worked to put the issue on the public transport industry’s agenda.
The public transport operators are, according to EU's ITS-directive required to make public transport data available in the correct format. Samtrafiken helps the transport companies fulfil the requirements, and thus ensures that the correct data is published on Trafiklab. The Trafiklab service is developed and managed on behalf of Sweden's regional public transport authorities.
Standards managed by Samtrafiken
Samtrafiken manages the national ticketing standard named BoB (standard for ticket distribution and ticket validation) that has been jointly developed by around 30 public transport operators. The BoB standard is made up of definitions and interfaces designed to make it easier to build flexible ticketing solutions and, by extension, be able to make it easier for the traveller to buy his/her travel product. To the public transport operators it offers flexibility when choosing suppliers of ticketing solutions and also secure ways to validate tickets.
Data Management
Samtrafiken collects and compiles transport data from Swedish public transport operators on behalf of Transportstyrelsen. The data is stored in the National database (for public transport data), which is the foundation for several of Samtrafiken’s services. Transport data is delivered to and from Samtrafiken in an agreed-upon format, the Transport Format.
We publish the collected data as open data on trafiklab.se, a platform where it can be downloaded free of charge for anyone who wants to contribute to the innovation and development of public transport in Sweden.
Resrobot
Resrobot travel planner is a service for everyone who needs quick, detailed and easily accessible information regarding journeys and combined travel for all modes of transport.
The timetables for all modes of transport in the country as well as driving directions, are gathered in one place. The service also includes maps of transfers and pathways. In Resrobot, it is therefore possible to search for virtually all trips in Sweden since all of the operators who submit GTI data and approximately 60,000 stops are registered.