A system for permitting a group administrator to book a group event is disclosed, including at least one user computing device in operable connection with a user network. An application server is in operable communication with the user network to host an application system for providing a system for booking a group event. The application system includes a user interface module for providing access to the application system through the user computing device or administrator computing device. The user interface module is in operable communication with a booking database storing one or more events, event aspects, and event prices to permit the user to select from the one or more events. A payment processing module permits the transmission of payment for the one or more events.

Secure authentication and delayed transaction processing for booking management systems is provided. Third-party services partner with booking management systems to aggregate and list offerings of the third-party services in a digestible display on a one-stop platform. A booking management system can manage the authentication of payment card information on behalf of any number of such third-party services. The booking management system can maintain and process authentication information associated with traveler payment cards, and provide virtual payment information to the third-party services for delayed transactions. The third-party services may later initiate the delayed transactions using the virtual payment information, without being required to perform authentication processing on the traveler payment card information maintained by the booking management system.

The invention relates to a method and system for booking reservations in a booking system and synchronizing bookings among several booking systems. The system comprises at least one booking system; at least one service provider; a mediator service; a client, and at least one client terminal device that can be a mobile device and that includes a dialogue. The client uses the dialogue to enter information into the system and the mediator receives inquiries and answers from the at least one booking system, the at least one service provider, and the at least one client. The mediator transfers and adapts information between them. The method and system are particularly suited for use with mobile phone users by Small Message Service messages.

The system includes a webserver (110) to generate a passenger journey document file (PJDF) (160) comprising a plurality of end-to-end passenger travel reservations (PTRs) for a set of passengers. The PJDF includes, for each travel leg of an end-to-end PTRs, a single-sheet integrated end-to-end travel instrument (TI) template (1000A) populated with an official boarding pass identifier (BPID) (1209) issued by one of a plurality of disparate travel host systems (JTHSs) (150.sup.1, 150.sup.2, . . . , 150.sup.Y) for a respective leg. Each TI template comprising an emulated boarding pass barcode (1211) associated with the BPID for the respective leg, and for N checked-in luggage items for the respective passenger, populated with X temporary luggage tag identifiers (LTIDs) (1231A, 1233A) linked to up to X official bag tag identifiers (BTIDs) (1209) from the JTHS of the leg, wherein X and N are integers. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the LTIDs and BTIDs.

A system and method for traffic decongestion allows users to bid for taster passage a>>d fester journeys. The system and method allows autonomous, semi-autonomous or user-driven cars, to bid for faster passage for their journeys. Additionally, users willing to use slower journeys may be compensated for their contribution in reducing traffic congestion, in addition to reduction of traffic congestion, die system and method can even out road usage, minimize road wear, give municipalities a new revenue stream, and save users time currently wasted by traffic.

A transit system and a transit method for managing logistics for an in-progress journey is disclosed. The transit system includes a mobility acquirer connected with two service providers. The system further includes user devices for multiple users. Each user device communicates with the mobility acquirer via an interface. The mobility acquirer receives and stores the preferences of users and updates logistics for the two service providers based on a start point, an endpoint, and the current location of the user device. The two service providers communicate with the mobility acquirer using another interface. The service providers track the availability of vehicles during a leg of the journey and calculate the resources entailed for the vehicles available for the leg. The system further includes a resource processor for allocating resources to the service providers by requesting resources for the journey from a resource wallet.

A method and system for preprocessing and query stages for a trip-based public transit routing algorithm, which is used for multimodal routing computations, clusters the public transit network and computes relevant network parts when transiting between different clusters in order to prune the search at query time. The processing phase is modified to use only a subset of the network, depending on the clusters associated to the origin and destination locations.

A server for optimizing a travel schedule is disclosed. The server includes a database storing travel information provided from a first electronic device and local information provided from a second electronic device and a processor that generates a travel itinerary based on the travel information and the local information. The travel itinerary includes a travel schedule for each time zone in a travel day and time. The travel information includes information about a travel place, a travel day and time, transportation, and accommodations. The local information includes information about traffic in the travel place, accommodations in the travel place, a restaurant in the travel place, a landmark in the travel place, activity in the travel place, or news for the travel place.

Implementations of various methods and systems of a network, GPS system, mobile computing devices, servers, forward commodity exchanges, grouping software for hubs, transparent open access pricing systems, blockchain audit and safety methods and systems, virtual hub systems, algorithm methods for no arbitrage conditions in a simple easy to use graphical user interface format for mobile or virtual computing over various mediums which are connected via a network to transact and trade transportation seats or capacity units in airline transport, subway transport, train transport, automobile transport, autonomous vehicle transport, taxi transport, space transport, virtual transport, underground transport, ship or sea transport, public transport, private transport or drone transport on a computer, mobile computer device, virtual reality computer device or mixed reality computing device.

A method and system having an artificial intelligence component which can generate recommendations to a user and/or a plurality of users. The recommendations can be based on information collected from a plurality of devices, sensors, historical usage patterns, predicted user schedules, and/or external data sources. Some embodiments include the method and system that dynamically display the actual carbon impact and/or predicted carbon impact for each item on the user's daily schedule.