Title :
Navigation and multimodal transportation with EasyTransport
Author :
Fragouli, Maria ; Delis, Alex
Author_Institution :
Athens Univ., Greece
Abstract :
Today´s intelligent navigation and transportation systems influence the way travelers access information to plan trips efficiently. By and large, such systems derive their navigational suggestions out of precompiled data regarding direct road connections recorded in their databases. They typically facilitate passenger navigation within predefined geographic regions, provide location tracing and direction functionalities over cellular networks or the Web and deliver accurate but not necessarily optimal transition paths. This article proposes EasyTransport, an intelligent navigation and multimodal transportation guidance system that focuses on near-optimal trajectory planning and informed decision making. EasyTransport introduces a number of novel features. The EasyTransport system helps travelers plan the most efficient route and choose the best modes of transportation in urban or large-scale geographic areas. Users can adapt the generated outcomes through an interactive interface.
Keywords :
decision making; geographic information systems; interactive systems; knowledge based systems; navigation; path planning; transportation; tree searching; user interfaces; EasyTransport system; decision making; intelligent navigation; interactive interface; multimodal transportation guidance system; near-optimal trajectory planning; optimal transition paths; Air transportation; Databases; Intelligent transportation systems; Iterative algorithms; Joining processes; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Marine transportation; Navigation; Rail transportation; Road transportation; BFSbased path planning; dynamic generation of transition routes; multimodal transportation; navigation in large-scale geographic areas;
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIS.2005.33