The Busview-X project constructed and demonstrated the use of an advanced public transportation system (APTS) to show the viability of proving real-time transit information to transit riders. This project (1) designed an advanced graphical transit information system using data from King County Metro Transit's existing automatic vehicle location (AVL) system and the Puget Sound's regional intelligent transportation systems (ITS) backbone; (2) created a World Wide Web page to launch the application; and (3) demonstrated the system's viability by providing reat-time transit coach locations to personal workstations on the University of Washington campus. As a precursor to an APTS for the Puget Sound region, Busview-X was designed to (1) provide real-time coach location information to the test group; (2) enhance King County Metro's existing investment in AVL technology without disrupting existing operations; (3) evaluate AVL accuracy; (4) encourage increased ridership, modal change, and productivity; and (5) be compatible with federal efforts to develop a national ITS architecture. Busview-X was constructed in an open systems model that supported a distributed computing environment. It used the X-windowing system for graphical support. Busview-X was used 2,490 times over a period of 670 days from November 1995 to September 1997.
Busview: An APTS Precursor and a Deployed Applet
2000
94 pages
Report
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English
Road Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation , Transportation systems , Positioning , Transit , Real-time data , Transit riders , Transit information systems , Automatic vehicle location(AVL) , Deployed applet , Busview-X , Advanced public transportation system(APTS) , Java applet , Puget Sound
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