VSPV-Standard 101 is intended to make taxi offers visible and bookable nationwide.

With a NeTEx-compliant data standard, the Taxi and Rental Car Association integrates taxi and rental-car data into existing information platforms and relies on cooperation with transport associations and system providers.

At the DELFI conference at the Lower Saxony State Representation in Berlin: the head of VSPV's Berlin office, Patrick Meinhardt, the chairman of DELFI, Sefa Tasdemir, and the managing director of the VSPV, Sascha Waltemate. | Photo: VSPV
At the DELFI conference at the Lower Saxony State Representation in Berlin: the head of VSPV's Berlin office, Patrick Meinhardt, the chairman of DELFI, Sefa Tasdemir, and the managing director of the VSPV, Sascha Waltemate. | Photo: VSPV

At the 5th DELFI Conference on April 29, 2026, at the Representation of the State of Lower Saxony in Berlin, the Association of Private Commercial Road Passenger Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia positioned taxi and hire-car services as an integral part of digital passenger information. In front of around 200 representatives from transport associations, state data coordinators, providers of information systems, and the DELFI Secretariat, the association presented its strategy for integrating on-demand transport into existing systems.

The two-day event was held under the motto “Passenger information – Overcoming borders together.” DELFI is the association for promoting seamless electronic passenger information and coordinates nationwide standards for data exchange and information systems in public transport.

Data exchange as a key topic

At the center of the conference stood the program item "Technological Pioneer in Data Exchange" by DELFI's chairman Sefa Tasdemir, who also heads the Information and Communications Technology unit at the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr. According to the association, there was explicit reference to the partnership with the taxi and rental car industry.

According to this, existing on-demand vehicles are to be systematically integrated into the digital information and booking systems. The aim is to use existing capacities rather than build up additional fleets.

NeTEx-based Standard 101

The association says it has been working on the technical integration of taxi and rental cars since the amendment to the Passenger Transport Act in 2021. The basis is the NeTEx-based VSPV Standard 101. Through this standard, offerings of the taxi and rental car trades should become visible and bookable in information and booking systems of public transport.

As an associated partner in the mFund project ODIN-MP, the association provides, according to its own statements, the domain-specific and technical integration of on-demand transport into the existing data structures. The standard is vendor-neutral and compatible with the existing NeTEx interfaces.

Political and professional networking

The managing director Sascha Waltemate and the head of the capital office, Patrick Meinhardt, used the conference, according to the association, to network with decision-makers from politics, administration and industry. For the capital office, the presence at the DELFI Conference is part of a strategic embedding in professional and political networks.

With its integration into the DELFI structures, the taxi and hire-car industry, according to the association, moves more firmly into the digital architecture of public transport. (Source: VSPV)

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