An application for supporting citizens and tourists in their mobility

Abstract

The general objective of the thesis is to encourage the use of public transport through the development of innovative services for smartphones. Few local transport companies offer a support for citizens and tourists to move around the town by using their means of transportation and besides when the service is provided is limited to the means of a single company. The proposed system provides a user with various services related to public mobility: a user can specify the starting and ending points of her/his trip by visualizing a map of the city or selecting these points from a list of stations. The system returns a trip planning which illustrates the means of transportation, the time duration and other information connected to the different stops, e.g., an image of the stop. Moreover, the system offers specific services for tourists. According to the tourist's position, the numbers of days s/he intends to stay in the town and his/her preferences about things to do, the system provides different trajectories in order to visit the town. The tourist can access various kinds of information about the points of interest encountered during the chosen itinerary. The system has been developed for iOS smartphones.