wvu transportation app group 10 peter kirkpatrick – shane welsh – steven white mentor: dr....
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Outline• Background• Problem Statement• Objectives• System Architecture• Basic User Definitions• Use Case• Technologies Used• Challenges / Uncertainties• Expected Outcome• Project Plan• Progress So Far
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Background• PRT system is unpredictable regarding failure• University only reports outages lasting longer than thirty
minutes• No interface exists to combine information regarding the
operating status of the PRT and bus systems• With smartphones becoming more and more prevalent,
there exists a need to develop an Android application to address the above issues
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Problem Statement• Create Android application and website to provide users
with real-time information regarding the operating status of the bus and PRT systems at WVU
• Provide a customizable notification system through either SMS or email
• Track locations of individual PRT cars via RF transmitters or phone tracking
• Provide a route optimizer• App will utilize crowdsourcing
• Crowdsourcing – a technique which allows users of the software to provide the majority of the information
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Basic User Functions• Administrator
• Add current report logs to master log
• Android and Web User• View the current operating status of the bus and PRT systems• Utilize route optimizer feature• Request / receive notifications
• Android User• Send PRT operating status reports to the server to provide other
users with updates.
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Challenges / Uncertainties• Relying on users to report the status of PRT accurately
and reliably• Limit the number of reports users can send per hour• Require users to be located in the general vicinity of Morgantown
to send a report
• Getting users to actively participate in reporting the status of the PRT
• Developing app to function properly with different devices (screen size & density) and versions of Android
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Expected Outcome• Produce multiple prototypes, each adding additional
functionality• Produce and publish a final application to the Android
Marketplace which fulfills the specified objectives and requirements
• Construct a webpage to provide users without a smartphone the same functionality as users of the app with the exception of reporting the operating status
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Progress So Far• Initial app prototype completed mid October• Website completed with links to all documents as well as
prototype