Determine the Most Appropriate Public Transportation Modes to Travel at a Given Time by Considering the Time Schedules and Live Traffic

Abstract

Transportation is a need of a human being. Mainly transportation is divided into public and private transportation. However, most people prefer to use private transportation modes because it is easy to use. However, the usage of private vehicles is a reason for many problems. Some of the common problems are road traffic, environment pollution, increased fuel usage, increased cost of traveling and parking problems. There are some reasons, which discourage people from using public transportation. One of the reasons is that there is no proper method to find appropriate public transportation modes to travel. The appropriate transportation modes have to be decided by considering factors such as time schedules, road traffic, distance, cost and comfortability. It is difficult for people to find out transportation modes by considering all of these factors. This creates the need for an application, which gives suggestions of public transportation modes based on these factors. Based on the study, an application for suggesting appropriate transportation modes was implemented. As a prototype, this solution covers only the public transportation of Sri Lanka. There are few existing applications and past researches similar to the application, but there are few limitations in these existing applications. Mainly these applications have been developed not considering the road traffic as a factor that influences the modes of traveling, and they have not covered Sri Lanka yet.