WISETRIP project is a Collaborative project co-financed by EU FP7 programme under Theme TPT.2007.4 “The connected traveller in the city, region and world of tomorrow”.

Background and aim of FP7-WISETRIP Project

With increasing traffic demand, it becomes more and more important for travellers to get easily real-time multi-source and multi-modal trip planning service before or on the trip, in order to satisfy their demand for a safer, faster and more cost efficient travel.
The commercial systems already available are providing adequately such services within a city (i.e. local) or at a regional level, but the combination of multi-source and multi-level information (urban level and long distance level) at a wider scale and the formation of dynamic personalized information delivery during the whole trip process (pre-trip and on-trip) has not been addressed.
The main idea reached that led to this project, is that existing independent systems for journey planning can become active subsystems of a ‘global’ journey planner system. Based on that, WISETRIP main goal is to develop and validate an innovative mobility service platform, which provides and personalizes multi-modal travel information sourced 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.
Additionally, the interconnected journey planners of WISETRIP could provide valuable information to demand responsive transport (DRT) planning and management systems which has not yet been widely incorporated within journey planners. To be able to integrate DRT with other public transport modes and to be able to plan and control so called travel chains, integrated (and real time) journey planners are needed. Many cities and regions are developing or have developed Multi Modal Web Portals to aid the development of DRT in their areas. It has long been recognized that there is a need for real-time information regarding the availability of all transport solutions in any area.  This information must be easily understood and accessible across multi media sites (GSM, GPRS, SMS, Email, Internet, Radio etc). The journey planners could be able to provide real-time schedule data for each bus stop so that DRT services can be linked with the fixed line services. Development of such solutions cannot be done in isolation. It is essential that we develop a common platform for transport information to aid the design of suitable technologies to meet the global market. WISETRIP is approaching this concept of the common platform built on top of participating Journey Planners which can enhance the information available to Demand Responsive Transport planning.

WISETRIP ACTION PLAN

Overall, the WISETRIP project has a duration of 30 months and the project plan includes the following different Workpackages:

• WP1 Project Management: This workpackage performs overall project management and coordination, and quality monitoring of the project’s results.
• WP2 Requirements Analysis and Architecture Design: This workpackage will define the user & system requirements, the framework architecture and data model of the WISETRIP system. The architecture definition will follow a cross-module design principle, and will be the basis for the system development activities performed in workpackages WP3 to WP5, where detailed design and implementation takes place.
• WP3 Journey Planner - Core System Development: This workpackage will develop the core WISETRIP Journey Planner, its interfaces with the participating Journey Planners and also implement the necessary adaptation for each Journey planner, either urban or long distance, according to the needs of the WISETRIP core system, the overall architecture and the personalization needs.
• WP4 Personalisation System Design & Development: This workpackage will develop the decision mechanisms supported by a well defined model of the trip life cycle and a location & preferences based ruled mechanism, for provision of real time or other information to interested users.  Such users desire to have personalized view and updates of information according to selected trips or other preferences.
• WP5 Information Distribution System Design & Development: This workpackage will develop the various software modules that are necessary to visualize the provision of the WISETRIP services to the users at multiple types of devices either fixed or mobile. Work will focus on user interface design, device interoperability and multilingualism management.
• WP6 Integration, Validation and Demonstration: This workpackage will integrate the software modules developed in WP3-WP5 to validate their interoperability, and execute experiments and trials to qualitatively and quantitatively measure the performance gains of the journey planner platform developed within the Project, in both laboratory and real-life conditions (demonstration). Partners will utilise their a) experts to provide a specialised panel of testers and b) their access means to the public and market to motivate wide use of the WISETRIP demonstration platform
• WP7 Dissemination, Assessment and Exploitation: The objectives of this workpackage are to disseminate the project’s news and products, to evaluate the results of the projects based on WP6 findings and measurements and to define strategy for exploiting project results.