SuperGeo Technologies develop a system for Taichung City Hall. Through the system, the public can query estimated arrival time of the bus when waiting for the bus and know how to transfer to required destinations effortlessly. The GIS application would eventually bring convenience and save time for the citizens and tourists.
In order to make Taichung a better tourism environment, Department of Transportation of Taichung City Government planned to create a system for the public to query bus transfer and plan a tour with the real-time dynamic bus information and transfer information. Therefore, SuperGeo is authorized to develop a platform to add convenience to public transportation which enables the public to travel Taichung area easily.
The goal of the project is to integrate the tourism and dynamic bus information with Web-GIS technology as the foundational architecture to facilitate the public to query bus information before starting sight-seeing. It’s expected to increase the convenience for the public to plan a tour route, to enhance the efficiency of the utility of transportation system, and further help the development of the tourism in Taichung City.
Integrated the convenience of map manipulation of Geographic Information System (GIS) and the "Smart Multi-Transfer Query Engine", the system enables the public to easily find out and obtain the needed information for their tour arrangements.
The system adopts SuperWebGIS, the Internet Map Server software, as the map server platform, which helps the related units publish the route data, scenic spot data, and the electronic maps of Taichung area stored in the geodatabase (Microsoft SQL Server 2000) via the internet.
The client end users could query the bus information of Taichung area and plan the tour route with the web browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher) without installing any plug-ins.
In terms of functions, Taichung Dynamic Bus Information & Transit System can be divided into two major functions: Dynamic Bus Information Query and the Transfer Planning.
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