The aims of the Open Sales and Distribution Model (OSDM) are twofold:
- to substantially simplify the booking process for customers of rail trips and,
- to lower complexity and distribution costs for distributors and railway carriers.
OSDM strengthens rail as a convenient and ecological means of transportation by simplifying distribution. Finally, it lays a solid fundament which can be extended to the distribution of other means of transportation.
The OSDM Online API and specification essentially consists of two parts: Offline Model and Online API. The Online API works in two modes: Retailer Mode and Distributor Mode. The Distributor Mode differs from the Retailer Mode only in that additionally to Admissions (aka. Tickets), Reservations or Ancillaries also Priced segments (aka. Fares) are offered and can be booked.
The OSDM specification is Open Source and freely available to all parties interested.
The OSDM-Online API is modelled in YAML, fully supporting the REST paradigm.
The documentation is available in the gh-pages branch of this repository.