Architecture of a passenger information system for public transport services

Author

Hannikainen, M. ; Laitinen, Antti ; Hamalainen, Timo ; Kaisto, Ilkka ; Leskinen, Kimmo

Author_Institution

Digital & Comput. Syst. Lab., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

698

Abstract

A passenger information system (PIS) called TUTPIS has been developed for networking passengers with companies that provide public transport services. TUTPIS supports a passenger with personalised, real time information services in all phases of a journey. Services include timetables, travel route searching, route reservations, and electronic payment. TUTPIS is targeted to operate on the developing wireless network infrastructure of mobile, local, and personal networking technologies. A TUTPIS model concentrating on bus services has been implemented using the specification and description language (SDL). The model contains functional implementations of a TUTPIS server and mobile terminals. In addition, the behaviour of external entities, such as buses, trains, and third party systems is implemented for simulations. By simulations, the operability of TUTPIS can be verified and performance estimations for system servers, wireless network throughputs, and mobile terminals derived

Keywords

computer networks; distributed databases; land mobile radio; public information systems; real-time systems; specification languages; traffic information systems; travel industry; PIS; SDL; TUTPIS; TUTPIS server; Tampere University of Technology Passenger Information System; bus services; electronic payment; external entities; functional implementations; mobile terminals; passenger information system; personalised real time information services; public transport services; route reservations; specification and description language; timetables; travel route searching; wireless network infrastructure; wireless network throughputs; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Databases; Information systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Laboratories; Network servers; Real time systems; Web server; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956860

Filename

956860