A public transport awareness solution based on IBM InfoSphere Streams

Abstract

Uncertain arrival and departure times cause reduced usage of public transportation. A Public Transport Awareness solution from IBM captures, processes, stores and visualizes vehicle movements across a public transportation network. The solution continuously analyses vehicle data and generates vehicle location, status, speed and predicted time of arrival based on realtime GPS signals. With a vision to improve information for citizens to increase ridership and revenues, this solution predicts when their bus will arrive, and optimal routes to reach their destination at the desired time. The solution uses the Geospatial Toolkit for IBM InfoSphere Streams, which implements the World Geodetic System 84 to accurately track locations in real time. InfoSphere Streams, an advanced, commercial stream processing platform provides an innovative, distributed runtime and a graph-based, extensible programming paradigm. It is well suited to extreme performance requirements and highly s ophisticated processing and analytics on all kinds of data, from structured business records to text, audio, imagery, time-series and geospatial data. Geospatial is one of the hundreds of Streams applications that have been written for commercial, governmental, scientific and academic projects.