Towards Delivering Context-Aware Transportation User Services

Author

Meier, René ; Harrington, Anthony ; Cahill, Vinny

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Trinity Coll., Dublin

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

376

Abstract

ITS architectures encourage integration of individual intelligent transportation systems into comprehensive platforms and enable sharing of information across a wide variety of systems and services. This paper presents a spatial programming model that has been designed as part of the iTransIT ITS framework to provide a standardized way to build value-added transportation user services and ultimately to deliver contextual transportation information to users. The spatial programming model is based on a topographical approach to modeling space that enables services to use potentially overlapping spatial context to correlate independently defined distributed information. This programming model has been evaluated by building a context-aware service for multi-modal urban journey planning

Keywords

distributed programming; mobile computing; traffic information systems; transportation; context-aware transportation user services; contextual transportation information delivery; distributed information correlation; iTransIT ITS framework; information sharing; intelligent transportation systems; modeling space; multimodal urban journey planning; overlapping spatial context; spatial programming model; topographical approach; value-added transportation user services; Buildings; Cities and towns; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Councils; Information retrieval; Intelligent structures; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic control; Urban planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, 2006. ITSC '06. IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0093-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0094-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2006.1706769

Filename

1706769