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• application for planning the schedule
of the buses, lines and drivers;
• OLTP SQL Server 2005 services for
the automatic collection and
processing of the distributed data
from the ticketing system.
• OLTP reports for the daily activities
(summerized transactions for points of
sales, bus lines, a.s.o.);
• computer assisted graphic dispatcher
for the AVL system.
Services and applications for "business
intelligence”:
• OLAP SQL Server 2005 services for
data preparation for the ticketing
system datawarehouse (historic,
synthetic data);
• OLAP SQL Server 2005 services for
creation and procession of the
datawarehouse for the ticketing system;
• application for multidimensional
analysis of the ticketing system, a
decision support tool;
• OLAP reports (route/bus utilization,
system trends s.a.).
The application for bus and driver
schedule planning
The application is an important tool both for
SMARTBUS system operation and also for
its testing stage.
The application has the following main
functionalities:
• automatic generation of the departure
hours and minutes for each route lap
according to a planned bus time
succession, dependant on the hour
intervals (normal hours, rush hours);
• automatic generation of the arrival hours in
each bus station for each route lap, starting
with the departure hours defined above.
This two functions are based on general
information stored in a database table,
provided by the transport operator. The
application also allows:
• manual route/laps allocation for each bus;
• manual driver/bus allocation, taking into
account that the drivers have two
working shifts and two days off;
• definition of a route from predefined and
geo-referenced route stops.
The departures of the buses are defined for a
specific route and have as a parameter the
code of the departure location, usually a
depot. The data views can be filtered by
route, bus or driver.
The software dispatcher GIS/AVL
This application monitors the on-route buses,
in order to supervise the bus schedule and
route adherence, and also to capture the
possible route incidents, thus allowing for
adecquate action taking. Furthermore, the
application offers the possibility to view and
analyze the data according to some
performance indicators. The application also
allows the communication with the on-route
bus drivers by text messages: view input
messsages, create new output message, view
message status. The message distribution is
handled by the AVL central application by
means of the database.
The application offers data views both in
datagrids and also in a visual form on an
interactive map of Suceava city, which is
performed by means of an ActiveX control
implemented within the project. The map
allows manipulations by zoom and pan
operations and also the display of information
labels attached to the bus and station map
objects.
The application allows: map views of the bus
current (real time) position on the route of
the monitored lines 5 and 2 in Suceava city;
data regarding the bus circulation filtered by
date, hour, route, vehicle, work shift, route
lap, pointing out the schedule adherence;
display of reports stored on the Microsoft
SQL Server report server.
The analysis and decision support
component
It has been designed and implemented for the
ticketing system taking into account the
specific requirements. Analysis
instruments/reports took into consideration
performance indicators, the e-ticketing
system as a whole, based on historical data: