Advances of the Location Based Context-aware Mobile Services in the Transport Sector

TAs computing becomes increasingly mobile today, applications and services need to be able to adapt to dynamic environments. Within a suitable framework, cTontext-aware mobile services constitute a market-oriented technological development that could potentially meet end-user needs. In this framework “context ” can be defined as any set of information and/or status of elements, obtained either explicitly or implicitly, that can be used to characterise a certain aspect of an entity or an event involved in a specific application or network service. An entity can be a person, place, or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application, including user and application themselves. As event is denoted any happening produced by or related to an application, which takes place under certain assumptions. A context-aware service is one that uses such a context for the provision of value to its user