An Intelligent Bus Status Informing Scheme Exploiting Smartphone Application

In this paper, we propose an intelligent bus status informing scheme based on smartphone application to increase convenience of public bus system by providing the seating capacity and number of passengers of the coming buses to waiting persons at the bus stop. The proposed scheme not only provides a real-time information of the number of passengers in the bus, also helps people to know whether the coming bus is crowed or not in advance. With this information, therefore, people who are waiting at the next stops can avoid the crowded situation and the safety accidents and also can select alternative transportations, which make the bus system run more quickly and efficiently. The proposed scheme is developed as a prototype and its effectiveness is validated with experiments to show the possibility of implementation.