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Possibility of Improving Passenger Information System in Bus Transport Using Cloud Services

Every day we are witnessing the breakthrough of new technologies in all forms of passenger transport. The meaning of technology, future development, and application are based primarily on the finding of methods how to make life easier. Today’s development of information and communication technologies is directed to wide population of users equipped with sophisticated terminal devices. The starting point has been guided by the idea that the implementation of new technologies should fulfil the users’ requirements: what they want, where they want it and in the best possible way in which they want it. The research in this paper is directed to the problems of informing the passengers in the domain of bus transport. According to the ITS concepts an attempt is made to improve the fleet management systems, first of all through interactive participation of the drivers in the transport process, navigation of vehicles/drivers and telemetry (remote vehicle diagnostics). The preconditions of this type of management are mobile communications of the vehicle/driver with other participants in transport/traffic process. Mobile terminal devices installed onboard vehicle itself are becoming the elements of ITS communication infrastructure. Unlike static information systems in bus transport, telephone or internet information about timetables and fares, with more efficient usage of ITS modules in the transport process the user can be provided access to a wide range of useful information before the trip and on the trip, and downloading of historical data on the trip itself. The paper presents the new concept of providing information services in passenger transport based on the location of vehicle as transport entity by implementing cloud computing infrastructure.

traffic information; tourist information; fleet management; cloud computing; ITS; LBS

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