Google Map Enabled Vehicle Tracking and Schedule Display
Market Situation
The world is awash in online trip planning and ticket buying services for the air traveler.
Train
riders in the UK, across Europe and in India are able to check schedules, make connections, buy tickets and reserve seats.
On the other hand, harried city commuters seemed consigned to forever exist in the static display age. True, numerous public transit systems had put up Intelligent Information Systems signs at transit centers and bus stops that provide route and schedules along with updated system and weather information.
Online, however, the available services still resembled their printed equivalents: lists of routes, schedules and custom-drawn street maps.
Business Need
Because advances in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) tools already provided access to
expected travel times
and weather-induced changes in vehicle arrival times,
“World Cities Planner" (WCP) (Name changed, and some details withheld with respect to NDA)
discerned an opportunity in early 2007 to build an online but more visual depiction of vehicle routes and real-time schedules.
WCP directed HyTech Professionals to develop a template
to which vehicle operators could subscribe. The WCP business model also created a revenue stream through the display of advertising.
WBP also wanted to:
- Be ready to go global immediately. Hence, the website had to accommodate multiple languages.
- Drastically cut both time-to-market and startup cost by making use of pluggable map controls from different providers.
Customer Benefits
- Web
2.0-style
intuitive display of vehicle routing and schedule information
- Reduced Cost of Development using
ad-hoc
resources from HyTech Professionals
- Ability to increase market share in their base products and services
- Improved customer service and portal usage
Technology Deployed
- .NET 3.5 as the platform.
- MS SQL 2005 database.
- UI support for the Google Map or Mapquest API’s.
- Leading-edge tools and technology – WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), WSSF and WCSF.
One innovative feature that HyTech Professionals built into the system was the ability to predict estimated time of arrival (ETA) of the next set of vehicles at a given stop over any four-hour time period that the user
queried.
Refresh rate for vehicle times, working from the Automated Vehicle Locator, was 30 seconds.
Solution, End-User Functionality and Extensibility
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Our Role
HyTech Professionals ably engaged with WCP as extended software development partner. Our team of software architects and systems engineers built and tested the complete solution the client required in short order.
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