An Open Extensible Platform for Intermodal Mobility Assistance

Abstract

Mobility can be considered as an important factor when it comes to assessing ones' quality of life. Today, there are many different means of transportation available, each one with its particular advantages and drawbacks. Recently, a whole set of new transportation concepts made some noise in the world. As an example, consider electric vehicles or Car- and Ride Sharing providers. We do not wish to favour the one or the other concept, in fact, each mean of transportation has its own distinctive charm, depending on the situation. We see the future in an intelligent combination of many different means of transportation, where the selection is aligned with the traffic participants' preferences and requirement, as well as with external factors. Nevertheless, any attempt implement an automated assistance is aggravated by the distributed nature of the data which is required for such calculation. In this paper we tackle this problem and propose an open, extensible platform on which (mobility) providers can offer their service in a standarised fashion. Based on this platform we present our mobility assistance system which supports users with urban trip-planning and outnumbers comparable approaches inasmuch as intermodal options are considered on yet another level.

@ARTICLE{Masuch2013Open,
  author = {Nils Masuch and Marco L{"u}tzenberger and Jan Keiser},
  title = {An Open Extensible Platform for Intermodal Mobility Assistance},
  journal = {Procedia Computer Science},
  year = {2013},
  volume = {19},
  pages = {396--403},
  number = {0},
  note = {The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and
	Technologies (ANT 2013), the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable
	Energy Information Technology (SEIT-2013)},
  abstract = {Mobility can be considered as an important factor when it comes to
	assessing ones' quality of life. Today, there are many different
	means of transportation available, each one with its particular advantages
	and drawbacks. Recently, a whole set of new transportation concepts
	made some noise in the world. As an example, consider electric vehicles
	or Car- and Ride Sharing providers. We do not wish to favour the
	one or the other concept, in fact, each mean of transportation has
	its own distinctive charm, depending on the situation. We see the
	future in an intelligent combination of many different means of transportation,
	where the selection is aligned with the traffic participants'€™ preferences
	and requirement, as well as with external factors. Nevertheless,
	any attempt implement an automated assistance is aggravated by the
	distributed nature of the data which is required for such calculation.
	In this paper we tackle this problem and propose an open, extensible
	platform on which (mobility) providers can offer their service in
	a standarised fashion. Based on this platform we present our mobility
	assistance system which supports users with urban trip-planning and
	outnumbers comparable approaches inasmuch as intermodal options are
	considered on yet another level.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4textsuperscript{th} International Conference
	on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2013)},
  doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2013.06.054}
}
Authors:
Nils Masuch, Marco Lützenberger, Jan Keiser, Sahin Albayrak
Category:
Journal
Year:
2013
Location:
Procedia Computer Science, 19(0):396-403, The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2013), the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-2013). Elsevier