Space Apps Challenge 2017

INTRODUCTION

Hundreds of thousands of years ago the man took five hours to eat his raw food. After the discovery of the fire the man invested only 30 minutes feeding since it was easier to eat cooked foods and could also keep them in a better way. This made the man use the remaining four and a half hours to explore the world, create new resources, create the wheel and the development of humanity.

Today our society is stuck because of a common problem: public transport. People lose 20 minutes of their lives waiting for a public transport, either because it does not arrive on time or when it arrives it is so full that it is impossible for another person to be able to climb. They are approximately 243 hours or 10 days a year, which people use to wait for a public transport that can take them to their destination.

Our proposal is to improve public transport by creating an application for bus stops that determines how many users want to go to the same place and send a suitable transport to speed up the road mobility.

Our solution reduces lost time by improving people's quality of life and their ability to be competitive, as they can meet their commitments on time, rest better, spend more time with their families and use this time to improve society.

PROBLEM TO SOLVE

Uncontrol of the Public Transport in the City.

A problem that all people live in when choosing a public transport, such as a bus, are the waiting times and crowding of people in the bus stations. This is not because of a lack of public transport, but because of bad regulation in waiting times, especially in times of greater traffic, which is where the problem is aggravated.

Not being able to control the variables that cause the transport system to be inaccurate cause the inconveniences arising from the arrears with their respective consequences. This causes cities to become total chaos as it is there that, due to lack of good logistics, control and maintenance, the city's road mobility is completely affected.

This is a problem that affects Panama and the vast majority of cities in the world, where bad road planning and bad logistics cause citizens to arrive late to their destinations, reducing their quality of life and their ability to be competitive, causing confusion and backwardness in the city, not letting it progress.

OUR SOLUTION

Thanks to the use of technology, a system was designed to provide logistics and support to transport regulators.

The idea is an application that censes the number of people per bus stop that are directed to the same destination. In addition to that, to predict, thanks to the use of Artificial Intelligence, which buses connected to the system are available, near the stop and with enough space depending on the demand, to reduce the waiting times of people at the stop. This is done by having the application learn how to predict the time and number of buses needed per station to be efficient and improve the warmth of people's lives.

The solution consists of two systems:

• The first is an application on a touch screen for the main bus stations where the user selects their destination and immediately insert their bus card into the slot marked to confirm the action. They can only perform this transaction once per user so that the record is correct. After inserting the card a "Requested" message appears on the screen, confirming that the count was performed.
• The second system is for the smaller stops that are distributed in the city and have a smaller agglomeration of people. The user uses an application, previously downloaded on his smartphone, which shows him the map of the city and the available stops. The user selects the desired stop as the destination and selects the "OK" button on the screen. Immediately a "Requested" message appears on the screen confirming that the count was made. When the bus arrives, the person pays with his user card inside the public transport, confirming that he completes the transaction and crediting points to his card for good use.

Once the registration is done by one of the two applications, this data goes to the system where, by Artificial Intelligence, it takes into account the information collected, the number of people on each bus and searches for a nearby transport that has the available amount of Spaces required for the number of people waiting at the station and want to go to the same destination. Transport regulators automatically send the bus to the situation.

The accumulated points, after accumulating 15 routes, accredit the user 1 free ticket for his next route. This encourages the user to make good use of the application and use the service regularly and responsibly.

This solution reduces waiting times and improves the quality of life of people connecting the transport system and regulating the entry and exit of users, both the bus stations and the same transport.

UX-APP

We use the UX-App application for the creation of the mobile system and the system for the touch screen. It consists of a map of the city with the location of the different destinations. Once the desired destination is selected, insert the card (for the touch screen) or select the "OK" button (for the mobile application) and the "Requested" message will automatically appear. This message has a screen duration of 1.2 seconds and disappears automatically, restarting the application for a new use.

APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

As part of the solution was used the Fuzzy Logic to help solve the number of buses to be sent to the stations according to the number of people in each.

In addition, by means of cameras inside the buses, using artificial vision, the regulators can know the number of people inside the bus and the number of people at the bus stop to inform drivers on which stations to stop.

Depending on these variables, the number of buses that are to be sent to stops at certain times of the day is decided, and it is also decided whether the bus picks up the users that are at that stop or sends an empty bus to that station, integrating it at System of transport as a support, so that all users of the system are satisfied with the efficiency of it.

FUZZY LOGIC IN MATLAB

Using the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox we try to simulate how, depending on the number of people in a station, the program calculates the number of buses and stops to go with priority, in case the bus that is en route can not pick up that Number of people because this bus does not have enough space for more users.

As maximum number of people in main stations or areas of boarding is a maximum of 100 people and in buses a maximum of 60 people. In turn this amount was divided into low (less than 15), average (greater than 15 and less than 25) and high (greater than 25 people) ranges per main season and within the low bus (less than 10), Average (greater than 10 and less than 25) and high (greater than 25).

RESOURCES USED

UX App “Browser based web, mobile & IoT product planning tool” https://www.ux-app.com/dev/editor?m=trial

Freepik “Leading search engine of vector designs” http://www.freepik.es/

Adobe Illustrator 2017 “Vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.”

Adobe After Effects 2017 “Is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems.”

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2017 “Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software is used for product design, rendering, and simulation.”

Matlab R2015B “Program of Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic.”

Adobe Audition CC 2017 “Is an application for digital audio editing.”