Personal Trip Planning and Route Guidance (Equipment Packages*)

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.

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Personal Information Access

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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.

Inputs/Outputs (Included Architecture Flows)

Source	Architecture Flow	Destination
Information Service Provider	trip plan	Personal Information Access
Map Update Provider	map updates	Personal Information Access
Personal Information Access	traveler profile	Information Service Provider
Personal Information Access	trip confirmation	Information Service Provider
Personal Information Access	trip request	Information Service Provider
Personal Information Access	map update request	Map Update Provider
Personal Information Access	transit information user request	Transit Management
Personal Information Access	trip confirmation	Transit Management
Personal Information Access	traveler interface updates	Traveler
Transit Management	trip plan	Personal Information Access
Traveler	traveler inputs	Personal Information Access