A distributed service-based software infrastructure for trip planning in motorway auto-routes context

This paper presents TRIPLAN, a distributed service-based software architecture providing the European travellers, who are planning their journeys, with high quality information in order to make them taking decisions about trip planning, by taking into account both predicted traffic conditions and real time ones. The TRIPLAN architecture is solution based on the following criteria: use state-of-the-art and innovative methodologies and techniques; exploiting the available information for providing more effective advices; enforcing standards for information exchange and cooperation among different systems in TERN; assessment and continuous upgrade of a knowledge base on traffic conditions; provide a set of architectural guidelines for a service information network. The focus of the work presented in this paper is the design of the SW architecture for providing via Web a traffic planning service based on an integrated informative system.