Elpreciodelagasolina.com
| Name of Product/Service | Elpreciodelagasolina.com |
| Company Name | Elpreciodelagasolina.com |
| Company Location | Spain |
| Company Website | Elpreciodelagasolina.com |
| Product/Service Website | Elpreciodelagasolina.com |
| Status | Commercial |
| Launch Date | May 2007 |
| PSI Sector | Traffic and Transport |
| Main Source of PSI Re-used | Petrol and diesel costs collected by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce under (Order 2308/2007). Petrol stations are required to send information to the Spanish government every time they change their price for fuel. This measure was taken in order to increase competition within petrol sector in Spain. This market was considered to be an example of oligopolistic market because the main operators fixed oil prices. This measure was adopted in order to enhance transparency in the market. |
| Value Added to PSI | Elpreciodelagasolina.com is a simple, user friendly online tool which provides information about the cost of petrol and location of petrol stations to consumers via the internet. Searches are quick and offer immediate results for the user. The website is updated daily with disclosures of prices and locations of petrol stations sourced from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. The information is processed and structured into a database making possible to find the location of petrol stations and the cost of petrol at each station in any geographical area. Thus, it allows consumers to plan travel itineraries finding the nearest petrol stations and ones with the best, lowest prices for fuel. Petrol stations can be ranked by price of fuel or proximity to a user. It is also possible to access historical data. Price data from over 7000 petrol stations is updated daily. |
| Investment Costs and FTE (Full Time Equivalent) Staff Involved (in-house and outsourced) | The online web application is a micro enterprise of operated by two persons. |
| Description of the Business and Role of PSI | Elpreciodelagasolina.com was the first tool of its kind to use public information to provide a service on the Internet about petrol prices and has been online since May 2007, which at that time offered a more sophisticated similar online tool than was offered at the same time by the Spanish government, which was subsequently improved. |
| Impact of the PSI Directive on the Business | This business highlights one of the fundamental benefits that if public sector information is enabled for easy re-use many micro and small to medium size enterprises will offer new innovative products and services that include public sector information such as this one. |
| Public Funding | None |