Toward Seamless coordination of cyber physical resources

这项研究将有助于整合新的信息和通信技术（ICT），以提高加拿大城市市政基础设施的可服务性，重点是移动和运输服务。据估计，移动即服务（MaaS）的全球市场每年价值5.4万亿美元。到2050年，城市旅行距离预计将增加两倍，这将导致司机在交通拥堵中花费的平均时间增加一倍。智能交通系统（ITS）包括拼车、公共交通、汽车租赁和自行车共享等多种模式的智能移动服务。这些服务可以根据每个旅行者的实时情况进行定制。理解移动服务之间的交互和相互关系是一项具有挑战性的任务，因为它们涉及分布在不同利益相关者之间的业务流程；包括联邦、省和市政府机构、私人交通服务提供商、个人旅行者/司机、私营企业和媒体。

This research will contribute to the integration of novel Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to improve the serviceability of municipal infrastructure of Canadian cities, with a focus on mobility and transportation services. It is estimated that the global market for Mobility- as-a-Service (MaaS) is worth $5.4 trillion a year [1]. By 2050, the distance travelled in urban journeys is expected to triple in number which will result in doubling average time drivers spend languishing in traffic jams. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) includes a set of smart mobility services over multi-modes such as carpooling, public transit, car rental, and bike sharing. These services can be customized to each traveller's real-time context. Understanding interactions, and inter-relationships among mobility services is a challenging task as they involve business processes distributed among various stakeholders; including federal, provincial and municipal government agencies, private transportation service providers, individual travellers/ drivers, private businesses and media outlets. This research studies, designs and creates novel computational artifacts to enable collaboration and coordination among stakeholders. The proposed research will answer the following questions: Given a particular service a group of stakeholders would like to provision, how can schemes of integration be automatically inferred and defined to guide the seamless selection and execution of stakeholders' capabilities, services and resources? What coordination schemes are required to have mobility services inter-operate (e.g., what are the required standards to support data exchange)? Answers to this question guide dynamic run-time aspects of application delivery including adaptively processing large volumes of real-time big data capturing urban dynamics. The platform builds on the strength of the ONE-ITS platform and services designed will be available via open API for community members to use and enhance. The multidisciplinary nature of this research will provide students with opportunities to explore and create new content in urban informatics, cloud computing, Internet of Things and Services, and Big Data.