6.5.3: Register Travel Services Providers

This process shall register travel services providers. The process shall accept requests for registration from the providers. This process shall pass the financial data (credit identity, etc.) to a process in the Provide Electronic Payment Services function for action. The process shall send the result of this action to the provider. This process shall send a new data request to the transportation information center data collector process to show that a new provider has been successfully registered and can be used as a source of travel services data.
The details of the provider shall also be loaded into a store so that data from the provider can readily be obtained in the future. This process shall manage this store by updating the travel services provider details. This data includes the provider name, contact details, scope of the geographic area for which it can provide data and the actual services that it can provide.

This process is associated with the Transportation Information Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• TIC Travel Services Information and Reservation

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• ftsp-provider_profile_update
• ftsp-request_provider_registration
• travel_services_new_data_request
• travel_services_provider_data_for_data_collector
• travel_services_provider_registration_request
• travel_services_provider_registration_response
• ttsp-provider_update_confirm