Discover now on PRIM, how our teams have organized themselves for the smooth running of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP)!
Des enjeux importants
For the first time in their history, the competition venues for the Olympic and Paralympic Games were 100% accessible by public transport (RER, metro, tramway, bus) as well as by soft mobility. This gamble on the part of the event organizers and Île-de-France Mobilités has brought its share of major challenges for managing passenger flows on the network. Digital passenger information met these challenges, and played a key role in the success of the Games.
La gestion du flux de voyageurs
A specific system was put in place for route planning. It is also a first in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games that the route calculation algorithms are adapted to the needs of spectator flow management.
Usually, a route calculation seeks to propose connecting points A and B as quickly as possible. However, for the Olympic Games, Île-de-France Mobilités adopted a different approach, taking into account forecasts of public transport ridership. The aim was to propose routes that would allow optimum distribution of travelers according to the capacity of the transport network.
The adapted Itinerary search results from the Île-de-France Mobilités calculator were released on PRIM before and during the games via the APIs Calculator Ile-de-France Mobilités - Generic access JOP and Calculator Ile-de-France Mobilités - Generic access (v2).
Le travail de préparation des jeux : coordination with other Traveller Information distributors
In order to guarantee consistency in the information distributed to travellers whatever the public transport platform used by the latter; synchronization with the main Traveller Information platforms (RATP, SNCF, GOOGLE, CITYMAPPER, MOOVIT, APPLE, TRANSIT) as well as the various PRIM data Reuses was crucial.
These platforms received the same requests and input data during the preparatory phase of the Games. This ensured consistent results from one platform to another, and in particular route proposals similar to those of the dedicated JOP application " Transport Public Paris 2024 ", developed by Île-de-France Mobilités. PRIM was at the heart of this collaboration.
La relation au quotidien-durant-les-jeux : Real-time, tailored information on travel assistance platforms
The implementation of a tailored organization between the dedicated Île-de-France Mobilités teams and the various public transport platforms operating in the Île-de-France region, as well as all reusers of passenger information data, required a reinforcement of PRIM's operational set-up with a dedicated team 7 days a week at extended hours.
The teams supported two types of platform during the games:
The first type of player to distribute Traveller Information was the transport operators (Bonjour RATP and SNCF Connect). For the Olympic Games, they used the same calculator technology as Île-de-France Mobilités, offering the same results as IDFM's remote media.
The second type of Traveller Information provider is digital companies (Google, Citymapper, Apple, etc.), which have their own route calculation technology. For the latter, real-time and continuous local support was required from the IDFM and Paris 2024 teams.
The success observed in public transport in Île-de-France throughout the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games can be explained by :
- The cutting-edge technical route calculation solutions put in place by public transport platforms .
- The good responsiveness and availability of the technical and operational teams with on-call duties similar to those of Île-de-France Mobilités set up.
- The quality of the data transmitted by the transport operators and their responsiveness during the Games.
Some key figures:
Fin des jeux : que devient les données JOP diffusées sur PRIM ?
With the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games over, the exclusively dedicated JOP data on PRIM will gradually be decommissioned.
In a 1er time, the API Calculator Ile-de-France Mobilités - Generic access JOP has been decommissioned as the data feeding this API is no longer updated, unlike the API Calculator Ile-de-France Mobilités - Generic access (v2) which benefits from better data freshness.
In a 2ndth phase, JOP datasets will remain available for a little longer on PRIM to enable reusers to continue to exploit and historicize JOP-dedicated data, notably for feedback analysis purposes. These JOP datasets will be depublished by the end of 2024.
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