Title :
Busfinder: A Personalized Multimodal Transportation Guide with Dynamic Routing
Author :
Tsolkas, Dimitris ; Passas, Nikos ; Xenakis, Christos ; Papataxiarhis, Vassilis ; Tsetsos, Vassileios
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun., Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
Multimodal routing services with public transportation are already present in many large cities across the globe. In this paper we describe a mobile guide that goes beyond existing solutions, mainly due to its service personalization and its dynamic routing algorithm. Personalization is based on knowledge engineering principles and Semantic Web technologies. The dynamic routing algorithm is based on short term history and estimators and supports cities with pre-installed fleet management systems in the public transport means.
Keywords :
graph theory; information retrieval; knowledge engineering; mobile computing; search problems; semantic Web; traffic information systems; transportation; Busfinder; dynamic routing algorithm; fleet management system; graph search algorithm; knowledge engineering principle; mobile guide; multimodal routing service; personalized multimodal transportation guide; public transportation; semantic Web technology; service personalization; short term history; Algorithm design and analysis; Cities and towns; Heuristic algorithms; Ontologies; Real-time systems; Routing; Transportation; dynamic routing; multimodal transportation; personalized location services;
Conference_Titel :
Informatics (PCI), 2012 16th Panhellenic Conference on
Conference_Location :
Piraeus
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2720-6
DOI :
10.1109/PCi.2012.19
