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EPSRC Reference:	GR/M75969/01
Title:	RAPID - RESEARCH TO AUTOMATE THE JOURNEYWEB PROTOCOL INTO A NATIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFORMATION SYSTEM
Principal Investigator:	Lock, Dr A
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Project Partners:	Assoc Train Operating Companies ATOC Atkins Buckinghamshire County Council Confederation of Passenger Transport Uk Datastock Ltd Hampshire County Council National Express Ltd Network Rail Pindar Travel Information Systems Ltd. Sema Ltd Southern Vectis Ltd Surrey County Council West Yorkshire Metro-National Transport
Department:	School of Civil Eng and The Environment
Organisation:	University of Southampton
Scheme:	LINK
Starts:	01 June 1999	Ends:	31 May 2002	Value (£):	164,538
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Transport Ops & Management
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Transport Systems and Vehicles
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The Government seeks agreement on the format of information and interfaces between different systems, and (to) co-ordinate research to provide both local and national coverage with the aim to systematically extend a public transport information system across the country by (mid) 2000.The JourneyWeb project to date has created working, specimen protocols which allow travellers to make long-distance travel enquiries of journey planners containing local bus, coach, and rail schedules. These enquiries involve local and long distance (ie national) journeys, beyond the scope of the home or Adjacent authorities local databases, and this demands that travellers have access to a national collection of schedules held by other organisations.Available databases of schedule data currently are in similar but not identical formats; are not related either to each other or to a national index; and do not contain relationships to national and international interchange points. Thus, this project seeks to 1) research issues with automating the creation and maintenance of systems specifically relevant in extending the JourneyWeb protocol beyond its three-country, two-supplier prototype into a national system, and 2) investigate many aspects of the protocol's use with a view towards increasing its efficiency for services analogous to telephone enquiries.
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