A Framework for Dynamic Advanced Traveler Information Systems

This paper presents the framework for a dynamic Advanced Traveler Information System(ATIS). The ATIS currently in use provides users with stereotyped travel options, but the set ofavailable modes in a given place and time is not the same for each traveler, and such a personal choiceset varies within the context of daily trip chains. The research presented in this paper addressed theselimitations by including dynamic features in the proposed system. The activity chain that the userperforms as well as the personal mode availabilities are modelled simultaneously to define the logicalarchitecture of an innovative information system. Such a technology was intended to assist travelersin performing their daily trip chaining. In order to provide some insight regarding the efficacy ofthe proposed procedure, a pilot test was performed using real travel time information. Results haveshown that the ATIS proposed in this study might generate a significant reduction in travel times.