VDV API Docs¶

Purpose¶

VDV documentation covers German public transport data exchange standards used by BetterFleet integration packages. It is the reference for schedule, block, trip, vehicle, and operational data exchange where customer systems use VDV interfaces.

VDV is a family of public-transport interface standards. In BetterFleet, the important parts are the standards that connect charging, depot, vehicle, and upstream operational systems such as ITCS, depot management, fleet management, and planning tools.

What This Covers¶

VDV 261: vehicle-to-infrastructure communication over ISO 15118 Value Added Service 3, with payload validation and schema publication for V2ICP messages.
VDV 463: WebSocket communication between a Charging and Load Management System and upstream presystems, including BootNotification, charging requests, and charging information messages.
VDV 452: schedule and route network data exchange between ITCS, planning, depot, and charging systems.
Related standards: VDV 455 for duty scheduling and vehicle parking information, and VDV 461 for ITCS to depot-management communication.
Documentation artifacts: OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON schemas, technical specifications, topology notes, use cases, and communication sequences.

BetterFleet Interpretation¶

Use VDV when the question is about public transport interoperability, schedule or block exchange, ITCS integration, vehicle-to-charger data during ISO 15118 charging, or CMS-to-presystem communication. VDV context often sits between Plan schedule data, depot operations, charging management, and customer operational systems.

The generated docs are the right place for exact VDV 261 or VDV 463 API details. BFDev docs should explain how those standards relate to BetterFleet scheduling, dispatch, depot, and charging flows.

Published Documentation¶

Public docs: https://vemo-vdv-6ec88d.gitlab.io
Support microsite public wrapper: bf-support-microsite/public/docs/vdv.html
Source path: integrations/vemo-vdv

bf-schedule-creator
bf-digital-twin
bf-manage-core
Plan schedule ingestion
Operations and dispatch integration

Chatbot Retrieval Terms¶

VDV, VDV 261, VDV 452, VDV 463, public transport, schedule exchange, trip, block, journey, vehicle, depot, operations data, passenger transport, timetable, duty, run.

Notes¶

Use the public generated docs for package-specific protocol references.
Keep BetterFleet schedule and dispatch interpretation in product or system-design docs, then link back here when the source package docs are relevant.