Preparing for the Future of Public Transportation with a Real-Time Application

Abstract

The use of public transportation offers a lot of benefits to a city and to its citizens in terms of: economy, health, accessibility and manage of emergency, but some cities don’t inform their citizens or tourists of the different types of public transportations available. This idea consists in the implementation of a real-time application that can inform every user of public transportation about which alternatives they have in that matter. Users will also the ability to track vehicles movements in real time to determine their location and where they are headed. This application will help users adapt their lifestyle to use public transportation to any area they go. A native iOS application was created as a prototype which uses the phones GPS receiver to track the current location of the user and the vehicles. With the prototype, a user could track public transportation vehicles at real time, locate their stations, and request a ride to a taxi. The application showed huge potential to impact the use of public transportation and also, be able to adapt to the future to include self-driven car. Key Terms - GPS, iOS, Real-Time, SelfDriven. I