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National Distribution System - based on 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.

Distributed ecosystem based on the international and open standard OSDM-Online

Sweden is the first in Europe with a distributed ecosystem connected to multiple booking systems.
 
The system is built on the open and international standard OSDM-Online, developed by the International Union of Railways (UIC). With this competition-neutral standard as a foundation, all producers in both Sweden and Europe have the opportunity to connect. Consequently, the system will have multiple booking systems linked to it.
 
This provides significant benefits for travelers, making it easier to access, plan, and book train journeys with multiple transport operators, including competing companies, both in Sweden and to/from Europe.
 
Samtrafiken offers two services in Sweden, Samtrafiken DISTRIBUTION and Samtrafiken ACCESS.
 
The new infrastructure creates favorable conditions for the continued development of the ticket collaboration Resplus. The service will also enable more secure and widely validatable tickets when implemented. This, in turn, will contribute to increased safety and secured revenue.
 
The system is being developed in collaboration with Turnit, an Estonian company with experience in standards within the railway industry in Europe.

How does the National Distribution System work?

Through the Samtrafiken DISTRIBUTION service, all of Samtrafiken's partners will have their ticket products distributed, making the entire collective transport offering in Sweden available to the retail sector. Retailers can access the offering through the Samtrafiken ACCESS service.

The distribution system consists of the following components:

In so-called "data warehouses," the transport companies' ticket products are stored. This is where the Samtrafiken DISTRIBUTION service retrieves the offerings - either from Samtrafiken's data warehouse 1, where Samtrafiken has created ticket products to be sold, or from the transport operators' own data warehouse 2 via an API.

A so-called distribution hub 3 retrieves, combines, and distributes the ticket products from both Samtrafiken's data warehouse and external data warehouses.

In the sales tool Samtrafiken TRAID 4, retailers can book journeys directly. This is particularly useful for retailers who need to handle manual sales, such as in kiosks, stores or call centers. A sales API 5 can also be used by retailers and transport operators who want to sell via their own websites or apps.

Communication between these different components is based on the international and open OSDM-Online standard (Open Sales and Distribution Model).

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