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An Internet utility which receives information about a proposed trip, including trip origin, destination and time. The web based utility calculates at least one route and provides periodic automatic updates of information related to the route such as traffic and weather conditions. Other information

An Internet utility which receives information about a proposed trip, including trip origin, destination and time. The web based utility calculates at least one route and provides periodic automatic updates of information related to the route such as traffic and weather conditions. Other information which may be automatically periodically transmitted includes information about other transportation systems which may interface with a trip such as airline departure or arrival times. Specific information related to a trip or destination such as availability of parking at the destination also constitute the automatically transmitted information.

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[It is claimed that:] [1.]maintaining a real-time database containing travel information, on a Web server;automatically updating said information in said database in real time over the Internet;entering requests for personal traveler information into a local processing system, said requests comprisi

[It is claimed that:] [1.]maintaining a real-time database containing travel information, on a Web server;automatically updating said information in said database in real time over the Internet;entering requests for personal traveler information into a local processing system, said requests comprising requests to be performed on the Web server reached over the Internet and requests to be performed on the local processing system;contacting the Web server over the Internet with an Internet connection hardware device and establishing a communication link utilizing an Internet communication program;transmitting to said Web server the requests to be performed on the Web server of said requests for personal traveler information;causing the Web server to contact the local processing system at a user specified update frequency and to transmit to the local processing system information processed to the requests to be performed on the Web server from said real-time database; andprocessing said information received from the Web server on the local processing system and processing on the local processing system said requests to be performed on the local processing system, and presenting the processed information from the local processing system and the Web server to the user.