WISETRIP - Wide Scale network of E-systems for Multimodal Journey Planning and Delivery of Trip Intelligent Personalised Data. WISETRIP is a 30 month EU FP7 Collaborative Project which started in March 2008. The overall objective of the WISETRIP project is to develop and validate an innovative mobility service platform, which provides and personalised multi-modal travel information sources from connected variant journey planners and is accessible by travellers at any place and time through various mobile or fixed terminals/devices before and during the journey.
With increasing traffic demand it becomes more and more important for travellers to easily obtain customised real-time multi-source and multi-modal trip planning information before or on the trip, in order to satisfy their demand for a safer, faster and more cost efficient journey.
Such customised information shall be delivered at travellers’ request anytime and anywhere, via various communication means that are enabled in both a fixed and mobile environment (e.g. short messaging, smart phones and PDAs, web, voice automated systems).
Though research results and commercial systems already available are providing adequately such services within a city (i.e. local) or at a regional level, the combination of multi-source and multi-level information (urban level and long distance level) at a wider scale and the formation of dynamic personalised information delivery during the whole trip process (pre-trip and on-trip) has not been addressed. Complexity increases when boundaries have to be crossed, either city or transport network system boundaries or national boundaries.
WISETRIP will aim to show that existing independent systems for journey planning can become active subsystems of a ‘global’ journey planner system. Such a system can additionally undertake the final stage of information processing which is necessary in order to achieve highly personalised information delivery and adapt it to multiple presentation means. To be truly global the system will be developed as an open platform and will incorporate well documented and specified interfacing modules so that new journey planners can hook into the global system and become active components that expand its geographical coverage to new cities, regions or nations.
WEBSITE: www.wisetrip-eu.org