Locus Travel: A Three-Tier Architecture Approach for Bus Travel E-commerce

摘要

A three-tier architecture approach can be used to improve business process in bus travel e-commerce. Currently, individual bus travel e-commerce systems are owned and operated by the travel companies in Turkey. These e-commerce systems are non-inter operable which create problems and difficulties for the travelers who use these systems to purchase travel tickets. This pa-per presents a system, called Locus Travel, implemented in ASP.NET platform to allow information sharing between companies' already implemented e-commerce systems. The system provides web based user interfaces for customers and form based interfaces for travel agencies. Using the system one can easily make comprehensive search based on the provided criteria, and then buy a ticket from the search results.