Development of Prototype Software to Support the Service Administrator of the On-Demand Traffic at Sanyo-Onoda City

In a depopulated area at a local government, the number of passengers using a bus service is decreasing by effects of both falling birthrate and depopulation. In such regions, bus lines eliminate many bus routes because their operation can be unprofitable. The abundant of bus services causes to lose connections with public transportations. An on-demand traffic is expected to introduce as an alternative traffic system of bus services in such areas. One of the most critical things to operate the on-demand traffic is to determine an optimum patrol road of addresses of their users. It has been four years since Sanyo-Onoda city introduced an on-demand traffic. The number of their users of the on-demand traffic tends to increase gradually. In such situations, we try to develop a QGIS plugin to search and display the optimum patrol road in the ondemand traffic at Sanyo-Onoda city.