Dr. Asier Moreno

One of the fundamental premises of this thesis is the necessity to establish mechanisms that give support to applications through proper management and publication of transit data. To meet these challenge, two main instruments are developed: a multimodal transport ontology, promoting the harmonization of available transit data; and a distributed and interoperable architecture, for the publication of semantic information.

A novel software architecture is presented, with particular emphasis on the design of the data model and the enablement of mobility-related services, providing a semantic model for the representation of transport information. These contributions have been validated through a laboratory test suite reproducing actual transport scenarios. A working solution of a semantic trip planner running on the proposed architecture is also presented, as a demonstration and validation of the system.