New Methods of Trip Planning for Travelers of Advanced Public Transport

A new generation of Trip Planners, at moment most of them at prototypical phase, try to overcome some current limits of these tools, according to new requirements of multi-modal transit networks, to new opportunities offered by the advancements in telematics and to new methodologies in transit network modelling. This paper first explores some aspects of new methods for real-time path choice support with personal tailored information, then a method of normative path suggestion on unreliable multi-modal transit networks, is proposed. For each examined topic, the open research questions and the necessary developments are considered.