📋 Tender Overview
The Chamber of Deputies discussed in the first reading an amendment to the Road Traffic Act which aims to introduce updated European rules for intelligent transport systems into the Czech legal order. This legislation will ensure further expansion and accessibility of key transport data to the public in a digital machine-readable format. The proposal will now be addressed by the Economic Committee.
Thanks to this amendment we will gradually make important transport data available to everyone - citizens companies and developers. Open data will facilitate travel for people and also support the creation of modern digital services such as connection search engines or more advanced travel planning applications. With this step we are developing smart mobility which contributes to safer and more efficient transport says Minister of Transport Ivan Bednarik.
Through the National Transport Information System managed by the Road and Motorway Directorate not only information about the current traffic situation will be publicly available but also for example data on temporary traffic signs traffic restrictions or selected parking lots and their availability. Thus the range of information from various sources that can be utilized is expanding. Currently many data are already available to everyone for example on the website dopravniinfo.cz.
In addition to the RSD website information will also be available to creators of various private digital tools such as mobile navigation. The data will be available in a unified pan-European format which is also one of the goals of the European directive.
The amendment also gradually introduces the obligation to publish information about public transport access nodes i.e. about bus stops train stations stops and platforms on the railway ports and docks used for passenger transport and airports where regular air transport is operated including their accessibility and access routes. It will also help those who walk or use public transport.
The change in the law responds to the obligation of the Czech Republic to transpose the directive of the European Parliament and Council (EU) 2023/2661 into national law which revised the directive adopted in 2010 and whose aim is to increase the safety and efficiency of transport through the introduction of intelligent transport systems and also to support the development of new technologies such as data-connected and automated vehicles. The draft law has undergone inter-ministerial comment proceedings has been discussed in the legislative bodies of the government and has passed the first reading in the Chamber of Deputies.
