ShuttleTrack Product Launch May 6, 2003 Krishnan Sriram & Salil Soman
ShuttleTrack Spring 2002 iCampus Project Set out to Provide Real Time Tracking information on MIT’s SafeRide van service Now provides tracking of all MIT shuttle services (SafeRide, TechShuttle, Charter Serices) Official Launch of Services to MIT Community Today (5/6/03)
Outline ShuttleTrack Demo Project timeline System overview
Outline ShuttleTrack Demo Project timeline System overview
Demo Route Map Stop Map Text Version Update Information Feedback Form
Outline ShuttleTrack Demo Project timeline System overview
What Have We Been Doing? Spring 2002 – –Experimented several communication strategies –Designed system components –Setup development environment Summer ’02 – –Installed communication hardware [cdpd] –Created system Back End
What Have We Been Doing? Fall ’02 –Expanded tracking to all MIT shuttles –Expanded functionality of back end –Addressed Issues of Hardware Damage IAP ’03 –Developed Front End, van Polling software, and Stop Detection Algorithm Spring ’03 –Continued Development of Front End and Back End –Installed steel safety cases and reinstalled hardware into vans –Developed Custom GIS Maps with accurate Lat/Long Coordinates of Stops Recorded in System
System Overview Looking Under the Hood
System Overview GPS/CDPD Modems on Vans Van Polling Windows Service SQL Server Admin Page Web service Web Service Client UDP Packets Over Internet Stop detection Arrival Estimation Back End Front End GPS Position
System Overview GPS/CDPD Modems on Vans Van Polling Windows Service SQL Server Admin Page Web service Web Service Client UDP Packets Over Internet Stop detection Arrival Estimation Back End Front End GPS Position
Acknowledgements Andrew Chen (’02) Genevieve T Cuevas(’03) Terran Melconian(’99) William Hall(PhD’00) Sarah Williams Dan Sheehan Erik Koplovsky Programmers System Design Team Technical Advisors John McDonald Phillip Long Stephen Immerman Institute Advisors Wyan-Ching Mimi Lee(G) Ryan Tam(G) Cordy Crockett(SM’02) Ging Ging Liu(SM’02) Nina Menezes(PhD’02)
And of Course... MIT Graduate Student Council & MIT-Microsoft iCampus Alliance