HAFAS
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 HAFAS for DOS for the SBB , timetable 2000/01 |
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| developer | HaCon Ingenieur GmbH |
| operating system | MS-DOS, Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux |
| category | Passenger information system |
| License | proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.hacon.de/hafas | |
The Ha Con F ahrplan- A uskunfts- S ystem ( HAFAS ) is a software for the timetable information of the company HaCon (Hannover Consulting). HaCon has been a 100 percent subsidiary of Siemens AG since 2017 .
The Deutsche Bahn AG, the Austrian Federal Railways and the Swiss Federal Railways as well as numerous other European transport companies , for example the public transport company TPG , use HAFAS on a broad basis. In particular, it is used to provide online timetable information for customers.
history
HaCon developed the first computer-aided timetable information in Germany for course 90 at the end of the 1980s. With a special algorithm , information should be able to be output within six seconds.
The offline versions, which used to be sold on floppy disks or CDs, could be downloaded from the Internet for a while, for example from Deutsche Bahn and for the entire Swiss timetable from the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund . Both operators discontinued this service for the 2014/15 timetable change. The ÖBB one year later for the 2015/16 timetable change. The offline timetables only included target data and could, if required, be provided with timetable updates via an update function (in the DB version also with price data updates until the end of 2013). The software ran under Microsoft Windows, previously also under MS-DOS.
With "HAFAS Pocket" a program existed in 1998 for use on the Pocket PC platform, via which the timetable data stored on the PDA could be evaluated. It was offered by the ZVV until 2013/14, for example . Deutsche Bahn discontinued this offer in December 2011 due to insufficient demand. There was also the “Personal Timetable for Palm OS ” based on HAFAS , with which only certain, previously downloaded timetable relations could be evaluated. This was due to the limited memory of earlier Palm OS devices.
Technical details
The software can be customized. Both the user interface and the supported functions are therefore different for the companies using it.
The Hafas Raw Data Format (HRDF), which is based on text files, is often used for data exchange between different information systems . HAFAS raw data can also be converted into GTFS format.
See also
- Passenger information
- Dynamic Passenger Information (DFI)
- Passenger information and management system of the Hamburger Hochbahn (HHA)
- Consistent electronic timetable information (DELFI)
- Finajour
- European Timetable Center
Web links
- Hafas website of the HaCon company
- Specification Hafas Raw Data Format on open data platform for public transport in Switzerland
- HAFAS ReST API specification , as of 2015, published by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
Individual evidence
- ^ History - HaCon, HAFAS timetable information, TPS timetable construction. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Company / references. HaCon, accessed February 14, 2018 .
- ↑ New solution based on tandem computers and Siemens PCs: Bahn wants to create an open network of computers . In: Computerwoche . No. 46 , 1988.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SBB: INFO + HRDF export interface 5.20.39 , accessed on December 1, 2014
- ↑ Conversion of HAFAS raw data to GTFS documentation , accessed on December 1, 2014
