Mode & Trip Time Advice (MTTA)

Mode & Trip Time Advice (MTTA)

Mode & Trip Time Advice (MTTA)

Mode & Trip Time Advice aims to provide a traveler with an itinerary for a multimodal passenger transport journey, taking into account real-time and/ or static multimodal journey information. It gives advice to its users with regards to the mode of transport, the most efficient route whilst travelling as well as the expected travel time based on floating car data (or other multi-source traffic conditions estimation technologies), allowing users to optimize their travel experience.

Participating actors in Mode & Trip Time Advice include event visitors, who want comfortable event experience, event providers, who want to improve their image and the experience of the customers, city municipalities, who want to improve their image and traffic flow, reduce the level of pollution, public transport, who wants to improve its image and promote public transport usage, service providers, who provide real-time traffic information, drivers, who want a stress-free driving experience, truck companies (in case of truck drivers), who want to improve their image and revenue, decrease stress levels of the drivers, traffic operator, who want to decrease the number of accidents, and cyclists, who want a stress-free driving experience.

The objective of Mode & Trip Time Advice is to create an eco-friendlier, energy-efficient and more comfortable driving or travelling experience.

Business Models

Taking into account various stakeholders’ views, a list of business model blueprints that address current or future challenges of urban areas, together with their operating and value-capture scenarios depicting the inner-workings of the business models, and the exchange of costs-benefits among stakeholders, have been created for the Mode & Trip Time Advice service.

Architecture

ITS-G5

In case of ITS-G5 communication technologies the Service Provider receives information about e.g. the road network from the Traffic Management System and information about an upcoming event from the Data Provider Back Office which acts as a third party data provider. That information gets used by the Service Provider Back Office to calculate the optimal route for the user. The Service Provider Back Office sends the routing information to the Communication Provider Back Office which provides the information to the Roadside Unit. The RSU will then forward the information to the On Board Units.

Cellular

In case of cellular communication technologies the Service Provider receives information about e.g. the road network from the Traffic Management System and information about an upcoming event from the Data Provider Back Office which acts as a third party data provider. That information gets used by the Service Provider Back Office to calculate the optimal route for the user. If the end user uses the Personal Information Device then the Service Provider Back Office is directly providing the routing information.

Architecture schema

Detailed information about Mode & Trip Time Advice architecture can be found here.

Suppliers

Suppliers of components and solutions for the Mode & Trip Time Advice service include research institutes, such as CERTH-HIT, CTAG, as well as private companies, such as NeoGLS, Dynniq, Traffic Technique,and Swarco.

Within the C-MobILE project the Mode & Trip Time Advice service is implemented in two Deployment Sites: Bordeaux, and Thessaloniki.

Bordeaux

In Bordeaux the MTTA service provides information about free spaces at Park & Ride facilities nearby the user. This services is also used to promote the use of tramway by indicating trip times to the city centre with public (tram, bus) and private (car) transport means. The information is provided by Bordeaux Métropole through OpenData and Qucit for the number of available places in Park & Ride facilities. The service provider for MTTA is NeoGLS and the service is available through the App “CTD – Connected Mobility”.

Thessaloniki

In Thessaloniki static travel time information is provided to drivers. The the service provider, the Hellenic Institute of Transport (CERTH-HIT), retrieves this information from the Variable Message Signs (VMS) operated by the Region of Central Macedonia (http://www.pkm.gov.gr/), responsible for the operation of the Traffic Management Centre. This information is then provided to drivers through the CERTH-HIT App (cmobile.imet.gr).

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