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- From: lisken@lili11.uni-bielefeld.de (Sebastian Lisken)
- Subject: time table search / journey finder program?
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.175003.10751@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:50:03 GMT
- Organization: University of Bielefeld, F.R.G.
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- Hallo everyone,
-
- I am involved with a student group at Bielefeld University (Federal
- Republic of Germany) which this summer has organized a deal with the
- local public transport association, enabling students to use
- regional trams and buses with their student I.D. accepted as a
- ticket. (This is paid for partly by an increased semester fee which
- every student has to pay, whether they use the offer or not - about
- 20 Dollars per semester - and partly by state subsidies which
- previously went into students' individual season tickets. The idea
- has been frist introduced last year in the city of Darmstadt and is
- currently spreading in Germany under the name "semester ticket".)
- The group is now busy giving students advice on how to use our
- public transport - anything from explaining the very basics up to
- compiling local time tables for complicated connections where you
- have to change buses several times.
-
- We are now looking for a program enabling students to look up
- individual journeys on their own, i.e. ideally it would require
- students to enter nothing more than their departure and destination
- (which might again be simplified by first offering a map or a list
- of areas to select stations from) and the time of departure or
- arrival. Then the program would more or less automagically find
- the lines and connections and finally display and print a suggested
- schedule for this journey. Of course we would need a stable and
- comfortable user interface as well.
-
- Obviously it will be hard to find all of this in one Public Domain
- program. Therefore any useful hints will be appreciated, e.g. a
- program that comes with source code which could the job after adding
- some extensions, cheap commercial programs ... whatever springs to
- mind. The program would have to be integrated into the university
- librabry network which runs on PCs connected through Novell.
-
- Please reply via email, I will summarize if I receive such a request
- in the mail.
-
- Thanks a lot,
-
- Sebastian Lisken
- lisken@lili11.uni-bielefeld.de
-
-