UNE-CEN/TS 16614-3:2026

16614 (NeTEx) is composed of a series of standards:

-Part 1: Description of the public transport network topology exchange format.

-Part 2: Description of the scheduled timetables exchange format.

-Part 3: Description of the fare information exchange format.

-Part 4: Description of the passenger information European profile (EPIP).

-Part 5: Description of the alternative modes exchange format.

-Part 6: Description of the accessibility European profile (EPIAP).

The present update concerns Part 3.

All the parts will be updated together, except Part 6 currently under formal vote (a NWI is produced for each Part). This update is done in a similar timeframe as the Transmodel (EN12896) revision, to achieve the best possible consistency.

The updated version of TS 16614 is going to be published as NeTEx v2.

The global updates consist in the following main extensions/enhancements:

-Deck plan allowing for a digitalised representation of spaces and equipment on board vehicles (with considerations of accessibility features),

-Physical layout of compound vehicles (e.g. train composition),

-Multiple minor enhancements, adjustments, and fixes to consider all the feedback from the previous versions of NeTEx, especially in the context of the European Delegated Regulation EU 2017/1926

Consistency and coherences with Transmodel and SIRI and OJP have also been challenged and minor updates are to be integrated in this revision.

This Part3 of NeTEx, is specifically concerned with the exchange of fare structures and fare data, using data models that relate to the underlying network and timetable models defined in Part 1 and Part2 and the Fare Collection data model defined in Transmodel V51. See the use cases below for the overall scope of Part3. In summary, it is concerned with data for the following purposes:

(i) To describe the many various possible fare structures that arise in public transport (for example, flat fares, zonal fares, time dependent fares, distance-based fares, stage fares, pay as you go fares, season passes, etc., etc.).

(ii) To describe the fare products that may be purchased having these fare structures and to describe the conditions that may attach to particular fares, for example if restricted to specific groups of users, or subject to temporal restrictions. These conditions may be complex.

(i) To allow actual price data to be exchanged. Note however that NeTEx does not itself specify pricing algorithms or how fares should be calculated. This is the concern of Fare Management Systems. It may be used may be used to exchange various parameters required for pricing calculations that are needed to explain or justify a fare.

(iii) To include the attributes and the text descriptions necessary to present fares and their conditions of sale and use to the public.

NeTEx is regarded as being upstream of retail systems and allows fare data to be managed and integrated with journey planning and network data in public facing information systems. It is complementary to and distinct from the downstream ticketing and retail systems that sell fares and of the control systems that validate their use. See Excluded Use Cases below for further information on the boundaries of NeTEx with Fare Management Systems.