Natural disasters, serious traffic or industrial accidents and other unforeseen events can lead to major disruptions in urban and regional public transport infrastructure and operations. Efficient operations control of public transport is essential for retaining public mobility and for recovering from such exceptional circumstances. This paper sketches out the concept of supporting information system components for optimised public transport management in exceptional situations. The article analyses the demand for such a system, studies requirements and discusses its feasibility. range of data required for optimised public transport management in exceptional situations is explained and compared to the information delivered by presently used IT systems for public transport management. The resulting gap can not be adequately filled by manual data acquisition. This is the motivation for the proposed concept of an enhanced information system architecture for supporting public transport operations control in exceptional situations. The basic structure integrates existing IT systems with external data sources adding a data integration component and a common user interface. The research is still in a conceptual phase and the feasibility of the proposed system has not been proven yet. However, results of an analysis of data availability and a demonstrator program are presented as first steps towards an exemplary implementation for the Dresden region in Germany. An extension of the concept to support regional intermodal transport management in exceptional situations is considered. For the covering abstract please see ITRD E135207.
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