Smart Cities and Homes

Chapter 16

Docit: an integrated system for risk-averse multimodal journey advising

A. Botea^*

M. Berlingerio^*

S. Braghin^*

E. Bouillet^*

F. Calabrese^*

B. Chen^*

Y. Gkoufas^*

R. Nair^*

T. Nonner^†

M. Laumanns^†*    IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland^†    IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

Multimodal travel is a ubiquitous part of living in a city. The operation of modern urban transportation networks can negatively be impacted by multiple factors, including poor traffic conditions caused by congestion and events on the road. In effect, transportation networks feature many types of uncertainty, such as variations in the arrival times of public transport vehicles.

However, current systems for multimodal journey planning assume a deterministic environment, ...