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Practical Issues in prototyping a national, public transport journey-planning system using the JourneyWeb protocol

Practical Issues in prototyping a national, public transport journey-planning system using the JourneyWeb protocol
Practical Issues in prototyping a national, public transport journey-planning system using the JourneyWeb protocol
This research examined the requirements for multiple travelers to request a local, medium-distance, national, or international itinerary plan from any node of a public transport journey planner system using timetable or schedule data from numerous public transport companies and modes. It was resolved that a four-tier, client-server architecture and a distributed data service would best meet these requirements, using the Internet to exchange trip schedule data according to an agreed JourneyWeb protocol based on extended markup language. The JourneyWeb protocol is explained, and the field characteristics and attributes used in mutual data interrogation between itinerary planning services, allowing the web of services to expand, are defined. Successive iterations of a prototype system, first between two counties and then expanded to include a larger geographic area, demonstrate progress to date using real schedule data.
0361-1981
46-52
Fingerle, G.P.
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Lock, A.C.
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Fingerle, G.P.
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Lock, A.C.
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Fingerle, G.P. and Lock, A.C. (1999) Practical Issues in prototyping a national, public transport journey-planning system using the JourneyWeb protocol. [in special issue: Public Transit Planning, Management and Performance, and Marketing and Fare Policy] Transportation Research Record, 1669, 46-52. (doi:10.3141/1669-06).

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This research examined the requirements for multiple travelers to request a local, medium-distance, national, or international itinerary plan from any node of a public transport journey planner system using timetable or schedule data from numerous public transport companies and modes. It was resolved that a four-tier, client-server architecture and a distributed data service would best meet these requirements, using the Internet to exchange trip schedule data according to an agreed JourneyWeb protocol based on extended markup language. The JourneyWeb protocol is explained, and the field characteristics and attributes used in mutual data interrogation between itinerary planning services, allowing the web of services to expand, are defined. Successive iterations of a prototype system, first between two counties and then expanded to include a larger geographic area, demonstrate progress to date using real schedule data.

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Published date: 1999

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Local EPrints ID: 74729
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/74729
ISSN: 0361-1981
PURE UUID: 94cfbef0-fdbd-4934-8b54-8e9175465494

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
Last modified: 13 Mar 2024 22:39

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Author: G.P. Fingerle
Author: A.C. Lock

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