Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner inaugurated the new Centre for Transport Methodology of the Institute for Transport Sciences (KTI) in Budapest on 25 March, 2014. As its primary function, the Centre is to provide uniform, real-time timetable and transport data with a nationwide coverage for organisations operating in community transport and for passengers.

The data exchange to be provided by the Centre will make service standards measurable and comparable and thus facilitate laying a sound basis for continuous development, Pál Völner pointed out. In the medium run, the work just started may make it possible to use highly precise data gained directly from transport as the basis for calculating budget subsidies for community transport, he said.

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It is entities ordering community transport services (local authorities, transport organisers) and transport service providers (transport companies, tourism offices, etc.) that may join the Transmodel community set up by the Centre for Transport Methodology, who will put their own data, too, at the disposal of other members. The Centre ensures forwarding the data received from service providers (e.g. map data of community transport networks and stops, real-time transport schedule information) using up-to-date cloud-based IT tools. The system using EU standards can also be connected to international data exchange so the real-time transfer information service of RailJet , already in operation in Austria, can be extended to Hungary as well.

The organisation will support, as an integrator, organisations involved in community transport organisation and implementation in preparing and compiling tenders in the fields of passenger information or electronic transport ticketing. Its operation will help the electronic tariff systems of the respective service providers to recognise, accept and manage each others’ intelligent card media and reduce their maintenance costs through the use of the central system. The Centre for Transport Methodology has a counselling and quality assurance role in the implementation of intelligent transport systems (ITS) in Hungary.

Including its legal predecessors, KTI Institute for Transport Sciences Non-profit Ltd., a priority non-profit organisation, has operated for over 75 years. The state-owned institute is one of the research bases for the Ministry of National Development. In addition to partners in the state management of the field, its partners include those from the public and private sectors. Considering its total research activities, it has an outstanding position among transport research institutes in Europe as well. Its major fields in research & development and measuring & analysis are transport safety, traffic techniques, transport organisation, network development, air purity, energetics, environment protection, acoustics, transport economy, roads, bridges and ITS.

(Ministry of National Development)