User-focused Trip Planner with an Expanded Suite of Features: Riga Case Study

Abstract

The research aims to develop a sustainable and personalised trip planner concept for Riga city, which will add information covering safety, service quality, and environmental aspects and provide recommendations for building an optimal travel plan based on the ranking results. The set of route attributes, which cover transportation service quality indicators, was identified and includes time, price, accessibility, reliability, comfort, safety, and environmental aspects. One of the user-focused interactions within the trip planning exercise is to introduce the possibility for travellers to choose weights for selected route attributes. Then the different possible route realisation rates using the multi-attribute decision-making methodology. The Technique for Order Preferences by Similarity to an Ideal Solution method was used for this case study.