Transit Communications Interface Profiles (TCIP)

Assessment

• Open License No

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  National Transit Institute provides the 'Transit Communications Inteface Profiles (TCIP) Standard Development Program.' This TCIP training provides classes to help ease the adoption of TCIP. APTA also provides the downloadable 'TCIP Implementation, Requirements and Capabilities Editor (TIRCE)'

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  Technical working groups composed of transit agency staff and representatives from vendors were the ones to develop TCIP (Reed 2013)

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  APTA allows users of the standard to add comments

• Extensions Yes

  Cities have the availability to modify parts of the standard to meet their needs. For example, the New York City MTA modified TCIP's specifications (Reed 2013)

• Human Readable Yes

  Lots of documentation regarding the standard, including definitions

• Machine Readable Yes

  Data is stored in zipped MS Word document files (.doc), which are not machine readable, but data can be also stored in XML

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data Yes

  As the specification is primarily for real-time public transit data, it requires the data to be real-time

• Metadata Yes

  TCIP data is organized into the following building blocks: Dialog Patterns, Dialogs, Messages, Frames, Elements, File Transfers). The Messages block allows for metadata. Also, there is a metadata field for TCIP artifacts