Excursion planning device and method

TL;DR: In this paper, a computer-implemented method for automatically identifying surprising travel events and/or points of interest for a user is described, which includes identifying a plurality of potential items for the user, determining a personality type profile of the user using a personality assessment tool, and filtering the identified at least one potential item based on predefined surprise criteria.

TL;DR: A vehicle side-view mirror control system as discussed by the authors includes a pair of extendable sideview mirrors and a controller configured to receive and store one or more trailer identifying indicia and a set of predetermined extendable mirror configurations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a system and method for planning trips and for processing trip requests that utilizes a centralized network for facilitating travel reservations and/or services, which includes multi-purpose point of service terminals that provide a plurality of modules for various travel related applications such as an integrated e-mail booking module, a computer telephony integration module, super passenger name record database, a customer database, trip planning module, customer relationship management module, workflow module, and a low fare search module.

TL;DR: In this article, a method of planning a travel route comprising the steps of maintaining in a memory a reference database comprising one or more travel data sets, each travel data set representing a travel option from a travel origin to a travel destination and comprising an origin identifier and a destination identifier, obtaining one of the travel preferences for a travel itinerary from a user, retrieving one or many travel data from the reference database to construct one or several candidate travel plans; calculating a plurality of penalty values based on the user travel preferences, each penalty value associated with a corresponding travel data subset; and

TL;DR: A computer system for extrapolating from relatively small amounts of information (700,702,704) provided by a consumer to generate a wide range of travel options (710,712,714) that are still associated with the information provided by the consumer as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, an activity-based itinerary planning tool allows a trip planner to incrementally build an itinerary, starting at a selected entry point and adding activities in a step-by-step manner, by taking into account commute times for different types of transportation and entry/exit conditions for particular activities/facilities.