2014 MERITS

Multiple East-West Railway Integrated Timetable Storage

MERITS is a single database containing timetable data for many different railway companies. The data is integrated and reproduced twice a week. MERITS is designed to provide rapid access for each railway company to all the data needed to produce timetables and to operate with a single source of data, thereby doing away with large volumes of multilateral exchanges.

The MERITS timetable data consists of:

• Train schedules and services
• Location database
• MCTs (minimum connection times)

Use of MERITS data
MERITS integrated data is used to provide a broad overview of railway undertakings’ timetable data, including domestic and international trains, for the following purposes:

• Customer information
• Journey planning
• Ticket booking
• Feeding mobile applications

UIC licenses MERITS integrated data to third parties.