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The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology agreed the appointment of the chairman of APC-advisory board, Mr. Andris Mamis, in the function as project manager. APC is further represented by the advisory board members Dr. Boris Kadish and Mr. Andreas Keuchel as business partner in the network organization. The other network partners are SME from Germany.  




CoachNet 


In airline and railway industry there was an evolution to common booking engines in the early 70th. Actual market segmentation is made by using different sales channels, i.e. internet booking engines. Vision of the consortium is to “copy” the business model of Amadeus (Start), Sabre for coach business.

Parallel to airline booking systems the hub model is most interesting for coach travel. With CoachNet the consortium wants to build up a coach network by establishing transparency in connections, fares and other relevant information.

The CoachNet platform should therefore be driven by an architecture supporting  

• A business operator independent information, reservation and booking system
• Sales channels to be used by resellers, travel agencies, bus terminals or tour operators
  (B2B) and directly by passengers

A flexible multi-client capable data maintenance facility which permits participating parties such as e.g. bus operators, coach terminals or resellers to maintain their data such as schedules, tariffs etc. The common vision is to establish an “eSolution” service with the following aspects:

• Creating a system (organization and IT) for building up a virtual market place
• „Web based“ solution for all steps of a convenience booking:

to generate transparency of actual coach offerings regarding

• complete routing instead of single, non-connected travel segments
• incomplete schedules
• travel time (length of journey)
• travel cost and conditions
• security and safety levels and comfort of coaches and operators