Multimodal Trip Planner System

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Joint Planning Office (JPO) awarded the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) funding to develop a Multimodal Trip Planner System (MMTPS). The system will provide regional coverage throughout the six-county RTA region of Northeast Illinois. This demonstration will test technical and institutional feasibility and public acceptance of multimodal trip planners, test ITS standards (in XML) used to integrate existing single-mode trip planners (components of the multimodal trip planner), and evaluate the trip planner's impacts and costs. This project is the third phase of a 3-phase project. The first phase was a multimodal trip planning needs assessment. The second phase, focusing on developing extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas built on existing ITS standards work (Transit Communications Interface Profiles and Advanced Traveler Information Systems standards). This third phase is an operational test of the system. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center will conduct a national evaluation for $300,000 for the MMTPS project, Baseline data collection will began in Nov 2006 and will finish in Aug 2007.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: National Research Program, National Research, Intelligent Transportation Systems

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $1080000.00
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Wilder, Charlene

• Performing Organizations:

  Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois

  Chicago, IL  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  DeLaurentiis, John

• Start Date: 20091020
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 34883

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Feasibility analysis; Field tests; Intelligent transportation systems; Multimodal transportation; Needs assessment; Regional planning; Regional transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Trip planning
• Geographic Terms: Illinois
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01489214
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Aug 5 2013 1:05AM