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NEXT BUS - BUS TRACKING SYSTEM

Ilustracija aplikacije, Ilustracija postavljenog NEXT BUS Citylight
Ilustracija aplikacije, Ilustracija postavljenog NEXT BUS Citylight


Šifra prijedloga: Hrana-nije-Otpad-2019-07-21

The „Next Bus“ is an pilot project in Sarajevo to approach those challenges, providing information that facilitates user´s decision-making when using public transportation.

Citizens of Sarajevo, in past several years, have increased awareness on the use of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions and advocate decrement of their use. Furthermore, experts in expert’s study’s claim that one of the clean air problems in Sarajevo is unreliable city transport. Major problem occurring in current city bus services (CENTROTRANS and GRAS) is that passengers are not informed about the exact time that bus will arrive/departure, but only know the previously scheduled arrival time. Various reasons that people take bus instead of their own vehicle (traffic jam, heavy parking fee, lack of parking slot, clan air awareness and etc.). Public bus service, run on a specific timetable giving specific time of departure and arrival at waypoints along the route. Such system is often difficult to maintain due to the event of traffic congestion, breakdowns, on/off bus incidents, road blockages or bad weather. For the most of users this is disturbing fact, since they cannot plan departure and arrival to the point of interest. Sarajevo city is fastest growing tourist point and where Old part of city is one of the spot of interest, public transportation represents the need. City bus transportation service has very poor transportation information system. In comparison with train/flight transportation systems, bus transportation service does not have a proper system to track all buses position on the terrain (In real time), this lead to the blockage of the data delivery of the actual arrival time on every bus stop. Currently, bus system service in city Sarajevo do not have real time tracking technology to track on each bus on the road or a platform to update latest bus traffic information to bus users. Such system and poor management leads to the decrease of users, every day. For example, students are one of the main users of public transport system because the main objective of bus tracking system is to provide estimated bus arrival time for student. The student must able to retrieve real time estimated bus arrival time for every bus stop. While waiting in bus stop, student able to access bus tracking system with mobile device instead. With this mapping technique, student able to know where is a bus position based on the map in real time.

The current use of public transportation as well as the techniques used to optimize this service is not enough for the increased number of people who need to go from one place to other every day. According to preliminary research data in the Municipality of “Stari Grad” of Sarajevo there are 34 bus and mini bus lines. Currently, in the Municipality of “Stari Grad” live 38,911 inhabitants and most of them are users of public transport on these lines. Data available to the public are weekly bus schedule with time of departures from start bus stations while data on current bus locations are not available. Such system through time has becomes inflexible for most users and there is an evident increase in the use of personal vehicles for the transport.

Sarajevo is well-known for its traffic jams (approx. 30- 45 min ), which among other effects prolong commutes and complicate the scheduling of public transportation. In an effort to improve public transportation services, NGO STEP initiate project „Next Bus“ as part of Smart City Sarajevo. The project is part of efforts to support and advance the Government’s data-driven policy and practice strategies. Among different aspects of a Smart city, mobility and efficient transportation are an everyday problem in an intelligent city, considering that there is an increasing number of traffic on the streets and pollution rates.

The „Next Bus“ is an pilot project in Sarajevo to approach those challenges, providing information that facilitates user´s decision-making when using public transportation. The application is oriented to offer a more efficient service for the local residents in a small-scale view and could bring great benefits for the state government in a big-scale, offering better services to all citizens combining the information of all public transportation services.  

 


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