Passenger Information System
Passenger information system is a specialized electronic search engine used to find the best journey between two points by some means of transport. Journey planners have been widely used in the travel industry since the 1970s. A journey planner may be used in conjunction with ticketing and reservation systems, or just to provide schedule information.
System Tasks:
- By selecting A and B points/stops calculation of optimal journey plan, minding transport timetables and other user preferences.
- By selecting A and B points/stops calculation of optimal journey plan, minding transport timetables and other user preferences.
- Display real-time transport locations on the map, and show transport arrival times on the particular stops..
- Flexible user interface to find appropriate information without much effort.
- Pedestrian routes are also calculated.
- Passenger information system consists of three major components: Planner, Timetables, Real-time transport tracking
- The main module of the system is Journey Planner engine.
- Single configuration of the system can support several types of public transport.
- Journey Planner product is extensible. Planning system is little part of bigger integrated Public Transport Solution and Smart City Public Information System.
Advantages:
- System uses Open Street Map.
- Make corrections can be easily made offline.
- Possibility to attach offline geo-location or map tiles server.
- Use of open GTFS specification.
Technical Data:
- System is built in JAVA programming language.
- User interface is built in HTML, JS.
- Deployed can be made on any web server.
- OSM (Open Street Map) is used as a map engine.
- OTP (Open Trip Planner) is used as a trip planning engine.
- GTFS (General Traits Feed Specification) feed has to be prepared as a feed for the system. All timetables, routes, stops and other information is all contained in GTFS feed.
- GTFS feed creation process must be automated.