ShuttleTrack

Product Launch

May 6, 2003

Krishnan Sriram & Salil Soman

ShuttleTrack

• Spring 2002 iCampus Project• Set out to Provide Real Time Tracking

information on MIT’s SafeRide van service• Now provides tracking of all MIT shuttle

services (SafeRide, TechShuttle, Charter Serices)

• Official Launch of Services to MIT Community Today (5/6/03)

Outline

• ShuttleTrack Demo

• Project timeline

• System overview

Outline

• ShuttleTrack Demo

• Project timeline

• System overview

Demo

• Route Map

• Stop Map

• Text Version

• Update Information

• Feedback Form

Outline

• ShuttleTrack Demo

• Project timeline

• System overview

What Have We Been Doing?

• Spring 2002 – – Experimented several communication

strategies– Designed system components– Setup development environment

• Summer ’02 – – Installed communication hardware [cdpd] – Created system Back End

What Have We Been Doing?• Fall ’02

– Expanded tracking to all MIT shuttles – Expanded functionality of back end– Addressed Issues of Hardware Damage

• IAP ’03– Developed Front End, van Polling software, and Stop

Detection Algorithm

• Spring ’03 – Continued Development of Front End and Back End– Installed steel safety cases and reinstalled hardware

into vans– Developed Custom GIS Maps with accurate Lat/Long

Coordinates of Stops Recorded in System

System Overview

Looking Under the Hood

System Overview

GPS/CDPD Modems on Vans

Van Polling Windows Service

SQL Server

Admin Page

Web service

Web Service Client

UDP Packets Over Internet

Stop detection

Arrival Estimation

Back End

Front End

GPS Position

System Overview

GPS/CDPD Modems on Vans

Van Polling Windows Service

SQL Server

Admin Page

Web service

Web Service Client

UDP Packets Over Internet

Stop detection

Arrival Estimation

Back End

Front End

GPS Position

Acknowledgements

• Andrew Chen (’02)• Genevieve T Cuevas(’03)

•Terran Melconian(’99)• William Hall(PhD’00)• Sarah Williams• Dan Sheehan• Erik Koplovsky

Programmers

System Design Team

Technical Advisors

• John McDonald• Phillip Long• Stephen Immerman

Institute Advisors

• Wyan-Ching Mimi Lee(G)• Ryan Tam(G)• Cordy Crockett(SM’02)• Ging Ging Liu(SM’02)• Nina Menezes(PhD’02)

And of Course...

MIT Graduate Student Council

&

MIT-Microsoft iCampus Alliance