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More and more of the public transportation riders hold today advanced cellular phones which include and integrated GPS device. Drivers who own portable car GPS systems may find themselves making parts of their journey using public transportation. The following suggests developing an information system designated for the public transportation passenger. The system will be similar in it's characteristics to GPS navigations system available today, but he information structure will fit the public transportation passengers' requirements. The system will able the user to receive route instructions from one point to another while using public transportation means. Route recommendations will begin with arrival instructions to the right public transportation system.
During the ride (on a bus, train, light train), the system will provide information about sites, businesses along the way, the destination stop and exchanging the driving method if needed, and walking instructions until the designated address. The following also suggest building a public database which will hold information from all operators and different service providers of these systems. The database will hold information which will allow analyzing of driving time, service levels and exchange times. This information will be available for the use of the transportation office as a control method and improvement of the public transportation service for the passengers' profit.
The goal of the administration is starting joined activities for information systems to be used by the public transportation passengers. The joined administration will work to identify parties of interest, evaluating needs and analyzing and defining the system requirements. The administration will lead a coordinated move among the private and governmental sectors to formalize the required agreements for the application establishment, including the definition of the required data layers, their sources (private, governmental, advertised) and their architecture combination. A special emphasis will be put on defining the suitable business model for the development of such system.
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