The new PTV Access data platform offers APIs to integrate location and mobility data into software solutions, providing significant added value for real estate platform operators or retailers. Powerful interfaces deliver refined data from transport models as well as public and commercial sources, enabling users to uncover mobility trends and solutions. PTV Group, part of Umovity, thus opens a wide range of applications, extending well beyond traffic planning and optimization.
The information is derived from automatically generated transport models and numerous other data sources, including points of interest data from public and commercial providers. Using intelligent algorithms, PTV Group fuses and refines this information, creating valuable and exclusive datasets. This enables accessibility analysis, the discovery of mobility trends and solutions, objective data-based comparisons of potential locations and the visualization of mobility indicators.
Through interfaces, real estate platform providers can determine and integrate an index for each of their listings that indicates the accessibility of frequently visited facilities such as Kindergartens, schools, restaurants, supermarkets, discount stores, pharmacies, hospitals and more. The API heralds a new era for real estate platform operators, allowing users to better filter and find properties that perfectly match their daily mobility needs. This shortens the entire commercialization cycle.
A sample implementation demonstrates how the accessibility index can be used to filter real estate listings. Platform visitors are only shown properties that match their preferred destinations and modes of transport.
The PTV Accessibility Score API delivers data by providing an accessibility index for various modes of transportation – bicycle, public transport, car, or pedestrian – for any given address. The index ranges from 0 (poor) to 100 (very good) indicating how easily a destination can be reached in a given time. The system calculates times based on a multimodal geographic database comprising the current road network, available and up-to-date public transportation route and schedule data, and bicycle infrastructure information. In addition to the accessibility index, the API includes all points of interest, such as schools, supermarkets, train stations, and pharmacies, that contribute to the index calculation.
Just as the accessibility index is crucial for real estate, location and mobility data are essential for retail. These indicators are important for assessing a location’s sales potential, especially as a counterbalance to online retail. The new interface provides data on the daily number of vehicles passing a location and the traffic volume, serving as an indicator. For example, supermarket chains or billboard operators can use realistic data to objectively compare possible locations and visualize mobility factors.
PTV Traffic Volume API provides the location-based daily traffic volume. The interface offers average traffic volumes for an address, for different time periods, categorized by day types, and hourly values for the surrounding roads. These values are calculated using a transport demand model and calibrated using public road counts.
“New mobility trends and solutions can be discovered via the interface, creating competitive advantages for various industries, such as real estate and retail,” says Christian U. Haas, CEO of the PTV Group, part of the international provider of end-to-end solutions for smart city ecosystems Umovity. “We will gradually add interfaces for other mobility data to the data platform.”
Source: PTV Group
