An Agent-Based Cooperative Information System for Multi-modal Travelers Route Computation

A wide and growing variety of transport's useful information systems and services are becoming available daily to assist travelers, but technical supports for discovering, selecting and integrating these resources are still limited. This is due to several reasons of different types: organizational, economic, juridical, technical and quality reasons. The purpose of this study was, essentially, to suggest an agent-based cooperative information system for multi-modal transport's travelers, trying to make the existing information system cooperate efficiently to provide travelers with multi-modal and multi-operator information itinerary involving different means of transport and several operators. More precisely, this agent-based cooperative information system has essentially for its aim to calculate the shortest itinerary in terms of distance, time, and cost, to assist travelers