TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and development of interactive trip planning for web-based transit information systems
AU - Peng, Zhong Ren
AU - Huang, Ruihong
N1 - Funding Information:
This article has benefited greatly from the comments and suggestions from Professor Jean-Claude Thill and three anonymous referees. The authors would also like to acknowledge financial support from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and the Center for Transportation Education and Development at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. The authors would also like to thank Professor Nancy Frank who has painstakingly edited the draft of the manuscript.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - This article presents a Web-based transit information system design that uses Internet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies to integrate Web serving, GIS processing, network analysis and database management. A path finding algorithm for transit network is proposed to handle the special characteristics of transit networks, e.g., time-dependent services, common bus lines on the same street, and non-symmetric routing with respect to an origin/destination pair. The algorithm takes into account the overall level of services and service schedule on a route to determine the shortest path and transfer points. A framework is created to categorize the development of transit information systems on the basis of content and functionality, from simple static schedule display to more sophisticated real time transit information systems. A unique feature of the reported Web-based transit information system is the Internet-GIS based system with an interactive map interface. This enables the user to interact with information on transit routes, schedules, and trip itinerary planning. Some map rendering, querying, and network analysis functions are also provided. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - This article presents a Web-based transit information system design that uses Internet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies to integrate Web serving, GIS processing, network analysis and database management. A path finding algorithm for transit network is proposed to handle the special characteristics of transit networks, e.g., time-dependent services, common bus lines on the same street, and non-symmetric routing with respect to an origin/destination pair. The algorithm takes into account the overall level of services and service schedule on a route to determine the shortest path and transfer points. A framework is created to categorize the development of transit information systems on the basis of content and functionality, from simple static schedule display to more sophisticated real time transit information systems. A unique feature of the reported Web-based transit information system is the Internet-GIS based system with an interactive map interface. This enables the user to interact with information on transit routes, schedules, and trip itinerary planning. Some map rendering, querying, and network analysis functions are also provided. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - Intelligent transportation systems
KW - Internet GIS
KW - Shortest path
KW - Transit networks
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U2 - 10.1016/S0968-090X(00)00016-4
DO - 10.1016/S0968-090X(00)00016-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033796410
SN - 0968-090X
VL - 8
SP - 409
EP - 425
JO - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
JF - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
IS - 1-6
ER -