Authors:
Wolfgang Kluth
;
Markus C. Beutel
;
Sevket Gökay
;
Karl-Heinz Krempels
;
Christian Samsel
and
Christoph Terwelp
Affiliation:
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Travel Information, Intermodal Transportation, System Integration, Carsharing.
Abstract:
The increasing demand for mobility, especially for individual transport, leads to more pollution, congested
cities and shortage of parking. New ways of mobility could mitigate these issues. Unfortunately, such forms
of mobility, i.e. carsharing, are usually isolated services, because of the missing integration with other mobility
modes. Our aim is to offer a combination of heterogeneous services on a single platform. We argue that such
an integration allows optimal offers and higher usability and therefore results with a higher acceptance among
travelers. Embedding a vehicle rental system into a travel information system information-wise is a step
forward. For this purpose, we developed an interface for x-sharing information, short IXSI, specialized in
connecting vehicle rental systems with a travel information system. IXSI is an XML-based, B2B interface
with functions for, e.g., exchanging basic vehicle data and price information. The interface enables travel
information systems to
perform bookings of carsharing and bikesharing vehicles and therefore allows the
customer to use traditional public transport services as well as rental services seamlessly. Furthermore, we
briefly present our IXSI implementations on travel information and vehicle rental system side.
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