Personalized mobile-assisted smart transportation

Abstract

Digital media covers larger parts of our daily lives nowadays. Mobile services enable a better connected society where citizens can easily access public services, discover events, and obtain important information in the city. We observe the popularity of mobile car sharing applications, such as Uber and Didi Dache. Mobile social applications provide new ways of developing and optimizing public transportation. In this paper, we present a mobile platform for timetable-free traveling. It can capture the traffic demand of citizens in real-time, and support efficient planning and scheduling for vehicles on-demand. At the moment, the platform is targeted for public bus services, but it has great potential to be extended for self-driving vehicles in the future.