The Gong Digital Bus Ecosystem

Professor Peter Eklund PhD (FACS)
Director, Centre of Digital Ecosystems
School of Information Systems and Technology

Passenger information systems can be achieved when there is a single integrated transport authority.  Such systems are more difficult to implement when combined across multiple companies, transport types and providers. Even more challenging is the provision of services in a ticketless transport network. In the Digital Bus, connecting services, details of the next bus or train, local shops, businesses, hotels and other traveller-related information, are made available via GPS, wireless networks and personal mobile devices as well as in traditional forms such as signs and audible signals. In this seminar, I explain the challenge of planning services in a ticketless transport network using the Gong Shuttle and free University shuttle services as a case study for research on location-based transport services.  

Wednesday 24th March  |  Lecture Theatre 20.3  |  12:30-1:30pm

An Audio recording of this lecture is available on the CEDIR website

In this video, we introduce the Gong Shuttle Passenger Ecosystem, a system that uses a number of wireless technologies that allow passengers to request and receive information about their current transport options at a given location.