GBUS - Route GeoTracer

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are very common nowadays and are adopted by almost every public or private transportation company. To adopt an intelligent transportation system, a company must have a database with all paths travelled by the vehicles and the bus stops' locations of each path. Currently, there is not an automatic solution that allows the user to collect the location of bus stops and its attributes, as well as the bus routes. The system developed, GBUS - Route GeoTracer, enables a single person, equipped with a tablet (or a smartphone) to gather bus routes or variations of existing routes, including bus stop locations, photos and attributes. GBUS consists of a client module and a server side. The client module is a mobile client application, GBUS Mobile Application, which allows the user to collect bus stops and routes from a running vehicle. The server side consists in a server, Route Builder, that receives the information collected and applies a map-matching algorithm to map the collected GPS traces to a digital road map; and a Back-Office Monitoring Application to visualize and edit the information collected. The collected data can then be used to populate a public transportation ITS system, thus reducing the implementation time and cost. GBUS was designed taking into consideration the requirements of Tecmic's XtraN Passenger ITS.