A Web Geo-Processing Service for Integrating Different Modes of Urban Transportation (A Case Study of Tehran)

In large cities such as Tehran, different modes of transportation are available for passengers. The development of urban transportation infrastructures has increased the complexity of the urban transportation network. In addition, data of urban transportation is often distributed and heterogeneous. Having such specifications, the designs and implementation of integrated urban passenger guidance are going to be more and more difficult. In order to overcome the problem mentioned above, we will illustrate the overall process of design and implementation of the urban traveller guidance system for Tehran. The designed system will be able to acquire and combine heterogeneous data sources that are located in different places (bus, taxi and Metro Inc, e. t. c.). The gathered data will be imported in a web processing service using the OGC WFS standard. The designed WPS will be able to model the multimodal network using graph theory. The final outputs of the designed system are several ranked optimal paths between the user’s selected origin and destination.