Personal Mobile Public Transportation Guidance Based on Virtual Geo-Sensors

A virtual Geo-Sensor is an active software component represented by geo coordinates and an interaction radius, which automatically recognizes the positions of mobile devices and triggers electronically controlled actions (e.g. opening gates, starting or stopping engines, etc.) when an appropriate privileged device reaches spatial proximity to its coordinates without burdening its users with pressing buttons or glimpsing at a display. This basic concept can be adopted for supporting travelers on their individual travel routes using public transportation even across transportation companies. At every transport nodal point, a virtual Geo-Sensor recognizes the arrival of travelers by their mobile phones and automatically checks for connecting transportation options due to their personal route and triggers re-planning on delays such that the mobile phone appears as an intelligent companion throughout the journey. If, in addition, every user is given the opportunity to place virtual Geo-Sensors, such a transportation guide utilizes user-generated location-bound content for other travelers in order to enrich navigation in a self-organizing way, e.g., for more appropriate instructions for handicapped people (blind people guide blind people). This paper outlines the fundamental concepts and the architecture of virtual Geo-Sensors and gives an impression on its potentials for a personal, mobile, public transportation guide.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Narzt, Wolfgang
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; Maps; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coordinates; Electronic control; Electronic controllers; Mobile communication systems; Navigation systems; Sensors
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01496271
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 24 2013 3:38PM