10/09/2017
In the daily operation of a public vehicle system, the movement of vehicles is affected by uncertain conditions as the day progresses, such as traffic congestion, unexpected delays and irregular vehicle dispatching times. These uncertain conditions give rise to public vehicle unsystematic transportation management as well as unmanaged public vehicle arrival time at bus stations, hence causing group of passengers at different bus stops to wait impatiently for the next bus arrival. In a real-time setting, software developers have devoted significant effort to developing flexible control strategies, depending on the specific features of public transport systems.
Jamogbosoft Company focuses on the implementation of a real time Public Vehicle Mobile Tracking System using GPS Technology. The system includes global position determining mobile phones located in the vehicles for determining the location of the vehicles along their routes. The system allows the public transit vehicle management and the passengers to view the present and the past position records of a target vehicle on Google Map through the internet. The mobile app installed on a GPS enabled mobile phone (Bus Simulator), periodically reads the current position of the vehicle using GPS technology, the data is sent via a mobile wireless communication network (2G/3G) from the mobile phone to a webserver where predictions such as the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) and Link’s Travel Time (LTT) will be computed. The vehicle’s position data, ETA and LTT will then be stored in the database for live and past tracking.
One of the advantages of using our system include the development of an algorithm that automates the process of creating new routes, and the enhancement of LTT computation and ETA prediction in other to reflect the current traffic situations. This system will be managed by any public vehicle transportation company, and will benefit both the management and the commuters.
We recommend the implementation of this system to public vehicle transportation companies in Nigeria, as their successful implementation of this system will not only reduce the long waiting experience by the passengers, but will increase their productivity, improved dispatching, reduces the number of private vehicle usage, reduces the number of fuel consumption, as well as the rate of pollution on our highways.
This system was implemented using C #.Net, ASP.Net, Windows Phone SDK, SQL Server database, SQLite mobile phone database, IIS webserver, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, and GIS Map APIs such as Google Map, Bing Map, and Open-Street Map for location displaying.
