Presentation Title: "Automated Enhanced Transit System"

Committee:

• Dr. Iyengar
• Dr. Thomas Sterling
• Dr. Bijaya Karki
• Dr. Nathan E. Brener

Date: June 5th (Thursday), 2008
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Room 164 A, Coates Hall

Abstract:
Any advanced city management plan is improved with efficient local transportation available to and from its neighboring cities. Operation of a bus transit service inevitably varies from the published schedule and timetables due to a range of factors including traffic, weather, and passenger loading variations, and operating staff behavior. Schedules may be focused on maintaining headway between each vehicle on a route, rather setting out the exact time a bus will arrive at each bus stop. Each transit facility operating for a state should focus on the transit fleet, crew and routes. Managing all these three inevitable components is independent in many states. The proposed system provides unique solution to the integration problem with features from Oak Ridge Evacuation Modeling System as a base for its route solving technique. The proposed system provides functionalities to handle the fleet, operators and also routes in the region. This improves the usability of the existing system and also avoids separate manual maintenance for separate components. Since both the integrated components are in the same domain, this prevents manual integration problems.

All are invited.