TY - GEN
T1 - Economical LBS for public transport
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing Symposia/Workshops, GPC 2008
AU - Zheng, Jianghua
AU - Winstanley, A. C.
AU - Yan, Lei
AU - Fotheringham, A. Stewart
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Public transportation plays an increasingly important role in building sustainable cities. However, a major deterrent to using public transport is the uncertainty of the length of waiting times at stops. This research suggests a solution based on location tracking based on an example of the use of tram transportation in Blackpool, north-west England. It utilises two mobile services: one involving real-time monitoring; the other involving dynamic scheduling. The former is intended for use by public transport managers. The later is intended for use by the general public. Both provide information on the current location of the next tram and its estimated arrival time. The system, TramInfo, was built by PHP and AJAX and the embedded application software was developed by J2ME based on Symbian OS. Future work is also discussed.
AB - Public transportation plays an increasingly important role in building sustainable cities. However, a major deterrent to using public transport is the uncertainty of the length of waiting times at stops. This research suggests a solution based on location tracking based on an example of the use of tram transportation in Blackpool, north-west England. It utilises two mobile services: one involving real-time monitoring; the other involving dynamic scheduling. The former is intended for use by public transport managers. The later is intended for use by the general public. Both provide information on the current location of the next tram and its estimated arrival time. The system, TramInfo, was built by PHP and AJAX and the embedded application software was developed by J2ME based on Symbian OS. Future work is also discussed.
KW - Dynamic real-time scheduling
KW - J2ME; public transport
KW - Location based services
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U2 - 10.1109/GPC.WORKSHOPS.2008.47
DO - 10.1109/GPC.WORKSHOPS.2008.47
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50649091379
SN - 9780769531779
T3 - Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing Symposia/Workshops, GPC 2008
SP - 184
EP - 188
BT - Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing Symposia/Workshops, GPC 2008
Y2 - 25 May 2008 through 28 May 2008
ER -