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Title:

Value of Personal Intelligent Travel Assistant

Accession Number:

01128713

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper presents a vision of a Personal Intelligent Travel Assistant (PITA), an information service that is able to provide a traveler at anytime, asked for and unasked for, with all the real-time travel information that is relevant to him or her, given his or her place in the multimodal transport network and personal preferences. Subsequently, the paper provides a model for the value of PITA-information. First, a generic model of information value is presented. Then, specific measures of information value are presented for three types of information that PITA-services are likely to provide in the near future: the assessment of known alternatives in terms of all their uncertain attributes, the provision of personalized advice and the personalized generation of unknown alternatives. Relevant properties of each information type are derived in terms of formal propositions, and practical policy-implications are presented.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-0339

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Chorus, Caspar
Timmermans, Harry J P

Pagination:

23p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Appendices (1) ; References (47)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-0339

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 4:37PM