Transportation

The Transportation category is for electronic formats used in vehicles, transit systems, shipping networks, and the like. See Agriculture for formats related to agricultural vehicles such as tractors.

Diagnostic

 * Automotive black box
 * On-board diagnostics (automobile service data)

Navigation

 * Garmin GPS systems
 * SRF (Garmin vehicle)
 * VPM (Garmin voice file)
 * KIWI GPS navigation system (.kwi)

Miscellaneous

 * OnStar
 * Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)

Aviation

 * Flight recorder
 * Flight Data Recorder
 * Cockpit voice Recorder
 * Airborne Image Recorder
 * Data Link Recorder
 * Aircraft Data Recording System

Public transit
See Magnetic stripe card and Contactless smart card for some of the physical media used for fare tracking and collection.

Shipping

 * Package tracking number

Spacecraft
NASA and other space programs use formats under Scientific Data formats, particularly Scientific Data formats.

Lots of Apollo and Gemini software and documentation are online.


 * Standard Archive Format (used for USAF missile data)

Miscellaneous

 * EDI (used in transport industry among other things)

Links

 * EU group mulls 'remote car-stopping device' for police
 * US to push for mandatory car-to-car wireless communications
 * Why can't we track jets directly?
 * Rethink the airline boarding pass
 * Guerilla installation of highway sign
 * Russian startup offers wireless remote controller for cars
 * Accelerating the Adoption of Web Technologies in the Automotive Industry
 * Will copyright law stop you from working on your car in the near future?