Physical Object: Personal Information Device

Personal Wayfinding Planning and Route Guidance

Overview

'Personal Wayfinding Planning and Route Guidance' provides a personalized wayfinding plan to the traveler. The wayfinding plan is calculated based on preferences and constraints supplied by the traveler and provided to the traveler for confirmation. Coordination may continue during the trip so that the route plan can be modified to account for new information. Many equipment configurations are possible including systems that provide a basic wayfinding plan to the traveler as well as more sophisticated systems that can provide transition by transition guidance to the traveler along a wayfinding route. Devices represented by this functional object include devices such as tablets and smart phones as well as desktop computers at home or work.

This functional object is included in the "Personal Information Device" physical object.

This functional object is included in the following service packages:

This functional object is mapped to the following Functional View PSpecs:

Requirements

# Requirement
01 The personal device shall allow a traveler to request and confirm wayfinding guidance from a specified source to a destination.
02 The personadevice shall forward the request for wayfinding guidance to a traveler information center for route calculation.
03 The personal device shall forward user preferences, background information, constraints, and payment information to the supplying traveler information center.
04 The personal device shall present personal wayfinding planning information to the traveler in a forms consistent with a personal device (e.g. audible or visual, haptic, or symbology) , and suitable for travelers with different physical disabilities (e.g. hearing. Vision, or cognitive).

Standards

Currently, there are no standards associated with the functional object itself though the interfaces may have standards associated with them.