On Reliable Collaborative Mobility Services

In this paper new type of organizations will be emphasized, with different characteristics against bureaucratic ones, from among the most relevant is the virtual organization that needs innovative technical solutions for communications processes between enterprises. ITS1 is a global phenomenon attracting world- wide interest from various groups of people in the field of transport. Why? Transport planners and engineers have always faced a certain dilemma in respect of the transport process. Transport is a vital part of society, providing numerous benefits such as mobility and accessibility. ITS is an example of concept that will support virtual organization. Along with the new challenges in the economical and political fields, modernization and new technology infusion are the main concerns of both engineers and politicians in transports, in order to upgrade the system requirements and services. We think that the new generation of telecommunication equipment that supports i.e. new VoI...

The upward integration endeavor is making informatics systems (I-systems) increasingly complex. The modeling techniques, methodologies, development strategies, deployment and execution environment, maintenance and evolution, and governance, to mention just a few aspects are making the resulted (un)integrated informatics technology system a vendor lock-in landscape. The relation between informatics science and engineering and the organization's business or control processes automation, or services provisioning and adaptation, has demonstrated to be difficult to converge to a common understanding of clear computational responsibility borders. Existing approaches and standards fail to be complete with respect to establishing a landscape of informatics technology under vendor agnostic model (lock-in free). In this context, this paper extends previous research by proposing an organization´s level modularity framework aiming at formally identifying an agnostic, and open informatics system of systems (ISoS). A definition of its components is provided, and a validation case study is discussed.

Transportation Research Procedia, 2016

Contemporary urban transportation networks are facing challenges to address the growing needs of mobility, all the while improving their economic gains and environmental sustainability. Several studies demonstrate that competitive alternatives to individual private transport are able to address these challenges, such as public transportation services. Thus, the need for optimising their operational efficiency and offer user-centric service delivery arises, with a range of challenges related to the inherent complexity of urban transportation networks as well as the range of dynamic elements involved in such systems. An innovative approach to this problem leverages personal mobile devices in combination with collaborative exchange of information. In this study a system was developed to combine information provided by travellers with data from public transport operators. The result is a rich model of the transportation network that enables the distribution of information in a personalized way and in real-time: the Seamless Mobility solution. Large-scale and expensive infrastructures, such as existing ticketing systems, constitute a threat to such flexibility and traveller access to services. As a result, a distributed architecture was targeted with the goal of integrating personal mobile devices in the infrastructure, with benefits for travellers and transport operators. The proposed solution integrates a broad scope of challenges, including application of secure mobile payments methods, data aggregation from different components and distribution based on relevance techniques. With the implementation of this solution we expect to positively impact the way travellers and transport operators interact, and contribute towards mobility services that are more agile and adequate, taking into account that mobility patterns vary from person to person, seasonally, and even throughout a day.

The project i-Tour delivers a personal travel assistant, developed for smartphones, capable of routing users through a multimodal transport network. Additionally public transportation companies can interact with their customers through the access to ICT platforms. On top of multimodal routing features we have developed a system to deliver a full Web 2.0 communication tools that allows transportation providers and their partners to promote incentive schemes through the offer of ancillary services, when people are on the move and according to their location, in order to better serve them (providing a services that is useful to a given person, within a given place, at a given time) and to reduce CO 2 emissions. An incentives scheme would be also based on rewarding mechanisms and/or mileage-like campaigns, directly provided through the use of the such system as check-in check-out procedures for all the users. The solution developed is a cross-technology platform (available for both fixed and mobile devices), which works as a gateway for all the information related to public transportation. This information can be updated also by the end-users that work as prosumers. The actors of the system are: public transportation companies, public administrations, private partners that can offer services on the move, publishers, end-users. In this way all the stakeholders are interested to contribute and keep alive the community of users in order to get qualified leads. i-Tour becomes a communication system that can potentially serve million of users at the same time, and it is based over the most up-to-date internet technologies, such as web services and cloud computing networks.

IEEE Systems Journal, 2013

2017

Abstract This short paper sets out a critical perspective process technology. It uses an analytical framework drawn from the work of Jackson as a means of identifying some important concerns and looks at the way research in the broad area of process technology might respond to these concerns. The paper is deliberately open and discursive.

Proceedings of ICC/SUPERCOMM'94 - 1994 International Conference on Communications

Computers in Industry, 2012

A large number of passenger information systems for public passenger transport exist in Europe at national level but their trans-national interoperability is very limited. A passenger information system depends on many underlying heterogeneous information systems; ranging from management of transport infrastructure network, public transport infrastructure objects, public passenger transport services and public transport processes and regulations. Public transport service providers have their local information systems that should be vertically interoperable with the national passenger information system. In the future trans-national interoperability of national passenger information systems for journey planning across Europe is expected.

The development of the Single Window concept (unique access/contact point for composite services) for the multimodal door-to-door freight transport management is a complex endeavour that is being addressed by the European MIELE project. Led by port authorities, the project identified the need for a novel strategy to foster collaboration among stakeholders with a diversity of processes and technology. The multimodal perspective requires a convergence and thus collaboration of maritime, railway, road, and air transport facilities as it is the case for the need of traffic information for a real-time (re)planning if some accident is hindering the current route. This requires that traffic information from different operators is integrated into the freight transport routing planner. Furthermore, a unified coordination and operations management of the existing business processes is lacking. To integrate such contexts, an open enterprise collaboration network (ECoNet) infrastructure is presented and discussed.