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Functional Requirements: Personal Trip Planning and Route Guidance |
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| Description: |
This equipment package provides a personalized trip plan to the traveler. The trip plan is calculated by the Information Service Provider based on preferences and constraints supplied by the traveler and provided to the traveler for confirmation. Reservations and advanced payment may also be processed by this equipment package to confirm the trip plan. Coordination with the Information Service Provider may continue during the trip so that the route plan can be modified to account for new information. Many equipment configurations are possible including systems that provide a basic trip plan to the traveler as well as more sophisticated systems that can provide transition by transition guidance to the traveler along a multi-modal route. Devices represented by this equipment package include desktop computers at home, work, or at major trip generation sites, plus personal portable devices such as PDAs and pagers. |
| Functional Requirements: |
- The personal traveler interface shall provide the capability for a traveler to request and confirm multi-modal route guidance from a specified source to a destination.
- The personal traveler interface shall forward the request for route guidance to a traveler information center for route calculation.
- The personal traveler interface shall forward user preferences, background information, constraints, and payment information to the supplying traveler information center.
- The personal traveler interface shall present information to the traveler in audible or visual forms consistent with a personal device, and suitable for travelers with hearing and vision physical disabilities.
- The personal traveler interface shall support an interface with a map update provider, or other appropriate data sources, through which updates of digitized map data can be obtained and used for route guidance displays.
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| Included In: |
511NY
Private Travelers Personal Computing Devices
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