Aplicativo Android para acompanhamento das rotas de transporte coletivo

Abstract

The use of means of public transport has been encouraged by several factors, among which the reduction of emission of pollutants and the reduction of traffic with less vehicles circulating. An effective service of collective transport network can benefit workers and students. These are the two categories that massively use this means of transport to go to work or to school. In Brazil, in the main cities there are alternatives of bus, such as trains and meters. However, in these cities and widely in medium and small cities, collective transport by buses and vans is dominant or even the only means of public transport. Systems and applications can help people using public transport to find out which line to pick up to get to the destination, the closest bus stop of their current location, bus schedules and other data. There are solutions available, and some of them depend on specific services or are applied to specific cities. The proposed solution is for Android mobile devices and for the city of Pato Branco. The application will provide search possibilities and the identification of bus stop from reference points. The indication of locations from reference points is a common way that people provide information about places and establishments. For example: the bus stop is close to the X square or supermarket A and so on. The application will work on the mobile device that needs to connect to the Internet only for some features such as the automatic identification of the geographical coordinates of the user's location. The data buses, lines, reference points, and bus stops are included in a web application and downloaded to the mobile device.