Ground transportation booking

Abstract

The systems and methods disclosed herein provide improved comparison and booking of ground transportation travel purchases addressing taxis, limos, shared rides, parking, and other related travel categories, through a single point of purchase. Using its own application programming interface (“API”) to connect to various ground transportation content providers, an automated multi-transportation mode system may gather ground transportation data from various service providers, and may assist travelers in securing reservations and bookings of all ground travel. The multi-mode ground transportation system described herein may provide integration and sharing of prices, reservations, bookings and other related information provided by disparate ground content providers. A data network such as the Internet and World Wide Web may be used as the data distribution backbone between the distribution partners and the multi-mode ground transportation network, and may further support integrated presentation to an end user who is making travel arrangements.

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