Transom: A model for collaborative innovation in a community of practice for public transport system HYS

Collaboration has been pronouncedly emphasized in computer mediated works. The idea is to use computer to collaboratively share information among participants. Little is known about the possibility to use it to evaluate and improve public transport. This work proposed a model not only to share information collaboratively but as a means of accessing other evaluations that has been suggested. Suggested evaluations are basis for further evaluation. An initial interview was conducted in some localities around Paris regions in France to appraise what is needed in a public transport system. These interviews were analyzed and used as the basis for the TranSOM model. TranSOM model was not to promote market. It was not growth model because cost, competition and government policies were not considered in the model. TranSOM model considered participations in collaborative re-evaluation as a node. Each node decomposed to an input, a process and an output. A process in a node is a sequence of operations with implied persons or group of persons, activities, object and management. Persons (participants) in the collaborations can assume a leadership role. The model was designed to analyze the contributions of participants.