Sarah Esther Williams

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Increasing Awareness of Public Transit Options Through Technology

Presenting In Vehicle Public-Transit-Aware Navigational Assistants

      We have designed a system to encourage people to use public transportation more often, and thus reduce air pollution, road congestion and several other problems. Our system, an in-car navigational assistant, helps users plan their journeys using public transit. It monitors the user's driving habits and suggests public transit routes that could save the user money, time, and stress. In addition, its presence in a vehicle serves as advertisement for, and a reminder of, public transit services. We prototyped and evaluated the interface to this navigational assistant using a Wizard of Oz technique. The software below was run from a laptop in user's vehicle's From the feedback we received, we produced a final design of a system that is effective in encouraging car owners to use public transportation.

Navigational Assistant Software in FLASH (View Here)

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