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Integrating Personalized and Accessible Itineraries in MaaS Ecosystems Through Microservices

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Mobility is a crucial sector for the livability of urban spaces, both in terms of accessibility for people with disabilities, and in terms of enjoyability by people with different interests. The deep transformation mobility is undergoing, heading towards commoditization of the full spectrum of transportation services, can lead to efficient solutions based on the same principle for all these needs. This paper shows how the approach based on the flexible orchestration of microservices allows to build applications that are, at the same time, more easily suited to the specific needs of different user categories, and more seamlessly integrated in the Mobility as a Service approach to smart mobility.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Universitá di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Andrea Melis & Franco Callegati

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universitá di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Silvia Mirri, Catia Prandi, Marco Prandini & Paola Salomoni

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Melis, A., Mirri, S., Prandi, C. et al. Integrating Personalized and Accessible Itineraries in MaaS Ecosystems Through Microservices. Mobile Netw Appl 23, 167–176 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-017-0831-z

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