National Center for Transit Research » Entries tagged with "Global Positioning Systems"
Dynamic Travel Information Personalized and Delivered to Your Cell Phone
(Center Identification Number: 77804) The policy of FDOT is to use “the Florida Advance Traveler Information System as the primary method to disseminate timely and important travel information to the public so that the public can make informed decisions regarding their travel plans.” … Read entire article »
Filed under: Final Report Abstracts, FY 2008 Final Reports, Projects, Publications
Exploration of Transit’s Sustainability Competitiveness
(Center Identification Number: 77925) With growing interest in climate change and greater anticipation of energy cost increases, being sustainable has implications for the financial efficiency of transit agencies and on the image and appeal that transit has to offer current and prospective customers. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Final Report Abstracts, FY 2010 Final Reports, Projects, Publications
Enabling Cost-Effective Multimodal Trip Planners through Open Transit Data
(Center Identification Number: 77926) This project will lay the groundwork for a multimodal trip planner that will use open, publicly available data to link bicycling, walking, and transit. The project will design such a trip planning system, and then work with an open-source system to develop relevant coding standards and tools to support the integration of new multimodal trip data, including transit data. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Project Scopes
Dynamic Travel Information – Personalized and Delivered to Your Cell Phone
(Center Identification Number: 77804) Building on information already collected for managing traffic and transit, this project proposes to expand the capabilities of the Path Prediction prototype to deliver personalized, route-pertinent incident information gathered by ATIS, including 511-based systems, to mobile phones. As part of this project, the Path Prediction algorithm will be enhanced, implemented, and tested in a real-world environment using actual GPS-enabled mobile phones and, if available, real-time data sources. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Project Scopes
Using GPS Technology to Measure On-Time Running of Scheduled Bus Services
Journal of Public Transportation Article in Volume 8, Issue 1 (2005) by Philip Bullock, Qingjian Jiang, Peter R. Stopher … Read entire article »
Filed under: Journal of Public Transportation Abstracts