title: A novel software architecture for the provision of context-aware semantic transport information.
abstract: The effectiveness of Intelligent Transportation Systems depends largely on the ability to integrate information from diverse sources and the suitability of this information for the specific user. This paper describes a new approach for the management and exchange of this information, related to multimodal transportation. A novel software architecture is presented, with particular emphasis on the design of the data model and the enablement of services for information retrieval, thereby obtaining a semantic model for the representation of transport information. The publication of transport data as semantic information is established through the development of a Multimodal Transport Ontology (MTO) and the design of a distributed architecture allowing dynamic integration of transport data. The advantages afforded by the proposed system due to the use of Linked Open Data and a distributed architecture are stated, comparing it with other existing solutions. The adequacy of the information generated in regard to the specific user's context is also addressed. Finally, a working solution of a semantic trip planner using actual transport data and running on the proposed architecture is presented, as a demonstration and validation of the system.
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. ad.masegosa@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Asier
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. perallos@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Asier
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perallos
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. dipina@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: López-de-Ipiña
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. enrique.onieva@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Onieva
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. itziar.salaberria@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Itziar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Salaberria
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. ad.masegosa@deusto.es.|IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao 48011, Spain. ad.masegosa@deusto.es.
authors.forename: Antonio D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Masegosa
keywords: Intelligent Transportation Systems; Linked Open Data; context-aware computing; multimodal transport information; semantic middleware