TransitAI Core

The -ilities

What the design is judged on.

Each quality, where the diagram answers it, and what is still open for the next phase.

Autonomy
Raw data, identity and operations stay in each party's account. The region holds contracts and derived products. A party can revoke.
Interoperability
Open standards as the contracts: GTFS, GTFS-Realtime, TIDES, GBFS, MDS. Shared identifiers for stops, zones, modes and time.
Security
Federated identity, short-lived roles, mutual TLS between services, one policy enforcement point, cross-party audit. Operational systems stay behind each party's OT boundary.
Privacy
Restricted fields never cross raw. Aggregation above a minimum group size, pseudonymisation, or clean-room computation. Fare data is the test case.
Governance
Owner and steward per dataset at the party, a regional body for contracts. Every field classified; every change scored by impact before it ships.
Maintainability
Vendor change is absorbed in the adapter. Contract change is versioned. Nothing downstream depends on a vendor's column names.
Scalability
Adding a party is constant work: adapter, identity, agreement. Event-driven exchange; per-party accounts. See onboarding.
Resilience
Coupling is one-way. An exchange outage degrades regional products and touches no bus, gate or charger.
Auditability
Immutable record of every access and contract change, readable by every party for its own data.
Explainability
Every model records the contract version and the parties whose data trained it. Covered properly in the AI strategy, Phase 4.

Open for Phase 3 and beyond.

  • The sharing agreement template, access policies and privacy thresholds (Phase 3, governance framework).
  • The trust model in detail: how a party's identity provider is vetted, incident roles, data classification tiers beyond three (Phase 3, cybersecurity framework).
  • Which regional use cases come first, and the exact fields each needs, worked backward from the requirement.
  • Whether an agent-based translation layer belongs in the adapter, or stays a pattern to evaluate.
  • The AWS service choices, all still candidates until the Phase 5 technical architecture.

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