Development of User Interface for Multiple Devices Connecting Path Planning System for Bus Network

Recently, web services to access from many type devices are often used. We have developed the shortest path planning system called "Bus-Net" in Tottori prefecture as a web application to sustain the public transport. And it used the same user interface for both devices. To support both devices, the interface cannot use JavaScript and so on. Thus, we developed the method that use individual user interface for each device type to improve its convenience. To be concrete, we defined formats of condition input to the path planning system and result output from it and separate the system into the request processing part and user interface parts that depend on device types. By this method, we have also developed special device for Bus-Net named "Intelligent-Bus-Stop".

Authors:

• Takahiro Takayama
• Takao Kawamura
• Toshihiko Sasama
• Kazunori Sugahara

Keywords:

• Bus
• Path planning
• Public transport
• User interface

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