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L o c a t i o n - B a s e d s e r v i c e s
B
y helping travelers move from
single-occupancy vehicles to pub-
lic transit systems, communities
can reduce traffic congestion as
well as its environmental impact.
Here, we describe our efforts to increase the sat-
isfaction of current public transit users and help
motivate more people to ride.
OneBusAway (http://onebusaway.org), a
suite of transit traveler information tools we
developed at the University of Washington,
provides real-time arrival information, a trip
planner, a schedule and route browser, and a
transit-friendly destination finder for Seattle-
area bus riders.1 In this article, we concentrate
on the tools it provides for real-time arrival in-
formation, which is available

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle
Washington at SeattleUniversity of - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Robotics and State Estimation Lab.

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