STINGRAY Project: Smart Stations as hubs of infomobility services for Smart Cities

Railways constitute the backbone of urban mobility and, in a Smart City perspective, stations should provide easy access and seamless interchange among transport and operation modes, booking tickets through different channels, paying with different methods, exploiting online services of different providers. Traditionally, station information systems have been quite closed to the external world; rebus sic stantibus, the STINGRAY project aims at renovating the role of the station improving passengers experience by providing the access to realtime trains information and to external mobility services (public or private), optioning between wheels, rails, or ecological means. This paper focuses on the distributed software architecture supporting the interface with heterogeneous external infomobility service providers by means of the definition of a general ontology capturing main characteristics of the mobility domain as well as the adoption of suitable Enterprise Integration Patterns.