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JourneyWeb
The research occurred between 1994 and 2002, and investigated the limitations affecting a proposed architecture for a distributed, multiple mode, personalised journey planning system for travellers. In doing so, it laid the key building blocks to enable personalised itineraries with various options for quickest, shortest, most direct,least number of changes, avoiding stairs, safest, and so forth. The assumption was postulated that multiple journey planners by different, even competing suppliers, would individually enter into a dialog with the public, using a collection of personal devices (i.e. mobiles, computers, telephones, kiosks, via telephone and an operator). To specify positions of the journey origin or destination, prespective travellers would enter post or zip codes, country and towns, or click on maps. These (active) journey planners would then manage a collection of requests for geographic, schedule, or fare data by spawning requests of (passive) journey planning agents. Where an active journey planner also served the role of a passive agent, and vice versa, journey planners would mutually interrogate one another. To model this system, a protocol was developed to exchange data based on ideas that have independently developed into XML. These innovative works led to a two-year research project, JourneyWeb, which started in 1997. Its main achievement was to test the dynamic exchange of journey planning schedule data between distributed, heterogeneous application processes in a laboratory environment. Research subsequently continued under the RAPID research project until November 2001 on a Gazetteer and Directory, which allow call centre or Internet-based services controlled access to journey planning services located elsewhere. Eventually, these services and supporting services have begun to allow travellers to obtain an unbiased and personalised selection of integrated journey alternatives, which may contain trips from multiple travel modes (train, bus, coach, air, ferry, walk, cycle, taxi, private car), may be sourced from one or more different databases and their suppliers, and has begun to span political boundaries. It can also apply to scheduled information within a journey. |
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Funding was won from Bucks County Council in 1996 and EPSRC from 1997 to 2002, and the research was undertaken at the University of Southampton.
journeyweb.org
[branding]Friday 08 August, 2008
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