Geneva – The International Air Transport
Association (IATA) announced it signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with the International Union of Railways (UIC),
to strengthen their cooperation in standard setting and
interoperability initiatives, with a focus on data exchange standards
supporting intermodal travel.
Under the MoU, the collaboration opportunities will be explored from the
dual perspectives of existing distribution processes and standards as
well as transformative retail-based “offer-order” processes and
standards, typified by the New Distribution Capability and ONE Order
initiatives. These activities offer significant opportunity for
value-creation within intermodal partnerships.
Specific areas for dialogue and cooperation around standards and interoperability include:
- Journey planning and shopping
- Reservations and servicing
- Ticketing, including irregular operations processes
- Industry coding, including location codes
- Check-in and validation control
- Accounting and settlement
- Legal aspects
“For 75 years, IATA’s mission has included supporting and facilitating
the development of the commercial standards that enable the smooth and
efficient operation of a globally inter-connected air transport network.
As customers increasingly seek sustainable travel options, it is
important that providers work together to provide seamless exchanges of
passengers and passenger information. IATA has extensive experience in
facilitating standards development to support intramodality and our MoU
with UIC is an important step toward strengthening this activity,” said
IATA’s Director General and CEO, Alexandre de Juniac.
François Davenne, UIC Director General, said, “This MoU confirms the
desire to really promote multimodality. Offering customers a single
ticket for rail and air travel gives them the opportunity to choose the
best of both worlds by optimising their journey as well as their carbon
footprint. In addition, both IATA and UIC are currently developing
tomorrow’s digital standards for ticketing applications: to work on
established interfaces right from the design phase is an exciting
prospect.”
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