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the state railway in country C also operates bus routes and is involved as an international travel provider. They have an ambitious plan to develop a system where you can find the fastest and cheapest connection from street A in city X to street B in city Y, using bus, train, aeroplane and fery as needed. Of course customers should also be able to buy tickets and ookings for their selected journey. 

At present the state railway operates a simple version of such a system on the Web, covering only local transport in the capital city. The system allows you to find the connection, bot not to book or to buy a ticket.

As a central part of their plans, they want a machine to be installed at railway stations, airports, and other transport hubs. From these machines you should be able to find the right connection, book tickets, pay and receive ticket and reservation. You should of course also be able to get a printed travel itinerary. They envisage that you should also be able to pick up the ticket and reservation for a booking that you have made on the Web.

They have decided that they are not going to make the system themselves -- they want someone to deliver the entire system -- hardware and software. Howerver, they are willing to contribute their present software for the Web solution. They envisage that several existing systems are close to what they want, but they are not sure.

The state railway has already experienced the difficulty of getting transport schedules from several transport providers, particularly in a uniform format so that they can put the data into their own database. Expanding the system to an even larget set of rapnsport providers will be one of the problems. 

Imagine that you work for a software house which has got a three man-month contract to perpare a request for proposal (RFP) for such a ticket machine. In full agreement with the state railway, the software house may later become the software supplier for the system, working as a sub-contractor for the main contractor. They might also enter into consortium with a hardware supplier, and sumibt a joint proposal with him.

Note: This project is suprisingly open-ended nd its limits are not easy to define. Since you don't have the customer at hand, you have to make preliminary choices on your own. In real life you would have to resolve the isses with the customer. Communication with otheres is a prime concern, and some domain knowledge from, for instance, a travel agency is an advantage. It is realistic to make a complete requirement specification during a course.

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Tiedosto: 5319f57a.txt Kuvaus: tikettimaskiina Lisätty: 21.02.2010, 18:49 Kategoria: Muut Lisääjä: WK Koko: 2.53 KiB.