Orphan Road

As promised here is an updated on my independent study. Since I meet with Prof. Dailey in the CSE department my studies have mostly focused on Mybus and how the information that is already there can be better communicated and used by riders.

As I documented earlier I first focused on how print information both at the stop and in leaflet form could look, which can bee seen here and here.

Since then I have been focusing on what the online information should consist of and how it should be communicated. I decided that the online component needs a better way of intuitively and quickly finding the mybus information, which resulted in the google map that I created. Currently mybus stop ids are in a tabular form split over 8 different webpages, which really isn't too easy to use.

My map includes all 1020 mybus timepoints. Each marker is linked to the corresponding mybus website, which a user can then bookmark. The next step is to improve the arrival time interface to a more initiative countdown or graphic format. I have a good idea of what I want to do but I'm trying to figure out the technical aspects right now.