Smart Bus Station-Passenger Information System

Abstract

The people who use inner city public transportation vehicles want to get information about the current status of the public transportation vehicles and they want to know the travel time of the vehicles both while travelling and waiting at the bus stops.In this study, a smart bus stop-passenger information system was developed in order to enable administers effectively monitor the public transportation system and also enable the people who utilize this system simultaneously observe the information about the location and status of those vehicles. In the designed system, the embedded mini-computer based systems and digital monitors were used in order to instantly present the information related to the travel and transportation in the public transportation vehicles. The instant movement information of the vehicle was transferred to the central server through a GPS module which functions integrated to the embedded computer systems and web services. Moreover, the embedded mini-computer based systems and digital monitors were installed to the bus stops in order to present the information related to the movements of the public transportation vehicle and their approach to the related bus-stop. The mini-computers embedded on the bus stops provide communication with the central server through web services and the bus stops, public transportation vehicles and central server formed information network of the transportation. The software developed to manage the system provided the authorities the advantages of instant status observation, remote-informing and updating related to the management of the status and travel of the public transportation vehicles. Through this developed system, moreover, it was ensured that the position and travel information of the vehicles through the monitors both inside the public transportation vehicles and at the bus stops, increase the life qualities of the people who use the public transport vehicles and facilitate their urban life cycles.

Uma Infraestrutura para o Monitoramento e Predição de Rotas e Paradas de Ônibus no Transporte Universitário

“…Dentre estas aplicações de monitoramento urbano, têm se destacado os sistemas de monitoramento deônibus dos campi universitários, pelo fato dessas instituições se compararemàs cidades em vários aspectos, principalmente em relação aos problemas de gestão, falta de infraestrutura e consequente insatisfação dos seus usuários [Sungur et al 2015, Miranda et al 2017, Saad et al 2018, Feng et al 2018].…”

“…[ Sungur et al 2015] apresentam um sistema inteligente de informações sobre passageiros com paradas para permitir que administradores monitorem o sistema de transporte público e possibilite pessoas que utilizam este sistema observem simultaneamente as informações sobre a localização e o estado desses veículos. Como estudo de caso, utilizou-se as paradas em um campus universitário e outros pontos urbanos da cidade.…”

“…Neste contexto, o conceito de Cidades Inteligentes (Smart Cities) surge como um novo paradigma que visa encontrar soluções sustentáveis para esses problemas crescentes. Diversas soluções foram propostas e desenvolvidas para os campi universitários, considerando que essas instituições se comparamàs cidades em vários aspectos, principalmente em relação aos problemas de gestão, falta de infraestrutura e consequente insatisfação dos seus usuários [Sungur et al 2015, Saad et al 2018, Feng et al 2018.…”

A Real-Time Machine Learning Based Public Transport Bus-Passenger Information System

“…This calls for a cost-efficient and quickly implementable public transport solution to cater to these specific conditions. Previous work done in this sector [10][11][12][13] partially offers solutions to challenges mentioned above but still lacks practicability as they require cumbersome hardware modules to be installed in buses, the use of outdated technologies with complicated implementation and high maintenance and lack of scalability.…”

Transporte público inteligente al alcance de sus manos

“…Esto implica un conocimiento apropiado de las rutas y paradas, lo cual, dado el tamaño tanto de las urbes como de las redes de transporte implementadas en ellas, se beneficia de algún tipo de ayuda automatizada (Sungur, Babaoglu, & Sungur, 2015).…”