To All Media Representatives, July 1, 2026 Public Transportation Open Data Consortium Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Information Policy Bureau, Information Policy Division Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, General Policy Bureau, Mobility Service Promotion Division "Public Transportation Open Data Challenge 2026" ~ Solving Regional Transportation Issues with the Power of Digital and Open Data ~ An Application Contest Will Be Held The Public Transportation Open Data Consortium (Chairman: Ken Sakamura, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will hold the "Public Transportation Open Data Challenge 2026" (hereinafter referred to as "this Challenge") starting July 1, 2026. This Challenge is an application contest with a total prize money of up to 3 million yen, where general developers will be provided with a large amount of public transportation-related data and open data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and will be asked to develop and submit applications utilizing this data. In collaboration with "Project LINKS" by the Information Policy Bureau, Information Policy Division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and the "Regional Transportation DX Promotion Project "COMmmmONS"" by the General Policy Bureau, Mobility Service Promotion Division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, we will broadly solicit ideas that can lead to the resolution of social issues surrounding regional mobility through the creation of innovation using open data. INIAD cHUB (The Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects, Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design, Toyo University), the Center for Ubiquitous Computing Systems, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, and the Association for Promotion of Social Infrastructure Data D