Linked MaaS: a vision for leveraging semantic web technologies for mobility as a service.

Ghazy, Shams; Ying, Wong Jing; Colpaert, Pieter; Tang, Yu Hoe; Chan, Andy

Abstract

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) promises to dissolve the boundaries of today's transport network through the integration of transport modes. However, stakeholders such as the operators, public transport authorities, or end-user routing application developers, are facing interoperability barriers in the way of providing a seamless travel experience. To identify, understand, and devise a plan for integration, we must first be able to clearly define the interoperability requirements of MaaS. In this paper, we propose a framework consisting of 6 layers: (i) the Stakeholder layer, (ii) the Data layer, (iii) the Infrastructure layer, (iv) the Ownership layer, (v) the Auth layer, and (vi) the Connection layer. In each layer, we outline the opportunities for Semantic Web technologies. In addition, each layer is equipped with use-cases to illustrate the application of the framework. Through the Linked MaaS framework, we formulate a baseline that extends the research focus of semantics in transportation and builds a guideline for the development of an explicitly defined and understood MaaS.

Citation

GHAZY, S., YING, W.J., COLPAERT, P., TANG, Y.H. and CHAN, A. 2021. Linked MaaS: a vision for leveraging semantic web technologies for mobility as a service. In Chaves-Fraga, D., Colpaert, P., Sadeghi, M., Scrocca, M. and Comerio, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International workshop on semantics and the web for transport (Sem4Tra 2021), co-located with the 2021 Semantics conference (SEMANTICS 2021), 6 September 2021, [virtual event]. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2939. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online]. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2939/paper4.pdf

• Conference Name: 3rd International workshop semantics and the web for transport (Sem4Tra 2021), co-located with the 2021 Semantics conference (SEMANTICS 2021)
• Conference Location: [virtual event]
• Start Date: Sep 6, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Sep 2, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Sep 3, 2021
• Publication Date: Sep 3, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 5, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 5, 2024
• Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• Series Title: CEUR workshop proceedings
• Series Number: 2939
• Series ISSN: 1613-0073
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2055128
• Publisher URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2939/paper4.pdf