Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Title	The study on Highway GIS Services Platform
Dept	Transportation Technology and Information Division
Year	2010
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Summary	In recent years, the Institute of Transportation, MOTC has applied information, the Internet and related IT techniques to exchange researches and studies which are related to transportation and communication. And now it has set up the connected information system. Piles of applied information are from different units, and all information is developed by different programs. Different formats or different offering methods might not show in the same field. Thus, information integrated will cost a huge amount of human resources and time. Some parts of the information system functions are too tightly-coupled and cause uneasy service sharing, and similar function programs, which might do poorly-done work over again. In order to simplify and integrate different program systems, this research is aimed at the Highway GIS Service Platform and refers to Service Oriented Architecture to process the whole plan and design. Therefore, it can be faster to share the information which are from different units, and shorten the time to build a program.   Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that guides all aspects of creating and using business processes, packaged as services, throughout their lifecycle, as well as defining and provisioning the IT infrastructure that allows different applications to exchange data and participate in business processes loosely coupled from the operating systems and programming languages underlying those applications.   The Highway GIS Service Platform is based on SOA. It takes advantage of platform independence to create a service which can allow users discover it via Internet. Then, users can compound another new service depending on their requirements. This service can also serve other people in the public. For example, the shortest path service in the past didn’t have real-time highway information in order to derive a reasonable route for drivers. Thus, the Highway GIS Service Platform can support real-time highway information so that it can derive a more real result.   The purpose of this research is to develop SOA for the highway domain under the rules of OGC, OASIS, build up the standard interface for service message communication, and explore three services to verify the feasibility of this platform.
Post date	2010/04/12
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