Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926Dangos y teitl llawn

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Article 4 of Directive 2010/40/EU and in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 shall apply.

The following definitions shall also apply:

(1)

‘accessibility of the data’ means the possibility to request and obtain the data at any time in a machine readable format;

(2)

‘data update’ means any modification of the existing data, including its deletion or insertion of new or additional elements;

(3)

‘metadata’ means a structured description of the contents of the data facilitating the discovery and use of this data;

(4)

‘discovery services’ means services allowing for the search of the requested data using the contents of the corresponding metadata and displaying such contents;

(5)

‘comprehensive trans-European transport network’ means the transport infrastructure that is part of the comprehensive network as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;

(6)

‘access point’ means a digital interface where at least the static travel and historic traffic data together with the corresponding metadata are made accessible for reuse to users, or where the sources and metadata of these data are made accessible for reuse to users;

(7)

‘dynamic travel and traffic data’ means data relating to different transport modes that changes often or on a regular basis, as listed in the Annex;

(8)

‘static travel and traffic data’ means data relating to different transport modes that does not change at all or does not change often, or change on a regular basis, as listed in the Annex;

(9)

‘transport authority’ means any public authority responsible for the traffic management or the planning, control or management of a given transport network or modes of transport, or both, falling within its territorial competence;

(10)

‘transport operator’ means any public or private entity that is responsible for the maintenance and management of the transport service;

(11)

‘user’ means any public or private entity which uses the National Access Point such as transport authorities, transport operators, travel information service providers, digital map producers, transport on demand service providers and infrastructure managers;

(12)

‘end user’ means any natural or legal person who has access to travel information;

(13)

‘travel information service’ means an ITS service, including digital maps, that provides users, and end-users, with travel and traffic information of at least one transport mode;

(14)

‘historic traffic data’ means traffic characteristics depending on the hour, day, season based on previous measurements, including rate of congestion, average speeds, average travel times, as listed in the Annex;

(15)

‘timeliness of data’ means the availability of up to date data provided to users and end users sufficiently in advance to be useful;

(16)

‘travel information service provider’ means any public or private provider of travel and traffic information, excluding a mere conveyer of information, to users and end-users;

(17)

‘transport on demand’ means a passenger transport service which is characterised by flexible routing such as car-sharing, car-pooling, bike-sharing, ride-sharing, taxi, dial-a-ride services. These services usually require interaction between the transport on demand service provider and end-users before delivery;

(18)

‘transport on demand service provider’ means any public or private provider of transport on demand service to users and end-users, including travel and traffic information thereof;

(19)

‘linking of service’ means the connection of local, regional, and national travel information systems which are interlinked via technical interfaces to provide routing results or other application programming interfaces (APIs) results based on static and/or dynamic travel and traffic information;

(20)

‘handover point’ means the station, stop or location at which two travel information services' routing results are linked to produce a journey;

(21)

‘multimodal travel information’ means information derived from any static or dynamic travel and traffic data, or both, for users and end-users, through any communication means, covering at least two modes of transport and allowing the possibility to compare transport modes;

(22)

‘routing result’ means the travel itinerary in a machine readable format resulting from an end-users' journey request with reference to the hand-over point(s) used;

(23)

‘infrastructure manager’ means any public or private body or undertaking that is responsible in particular for establishing and maintaining transport infrastructure, or part thereof;

(24)

‘traveller transport service’ means any public or private transport service or any service which is available for collective use or private use by the general public covering different modes of transport.