Route planner for public transport and micromobility

Abstract

In light of the current environmental and energy crisis, the use of public transport and other low-carbon means of transportation is crucial for achieving the set national and European goals by the end of the current decade. Unlike traveling by car, however, traveling by other means requires at least some planning, which may prove to be too much of an adjustment for many potential users. The reasons for the low level of use of public transport and shared mobility solutions lie largely in the fragmentation of access to information about the possibilities of travel. The aim of the article is to make route planning easier by introducing an intelligent route planner that enables automatic search for transport options and multi-modal route planning with publicly available forms of mobility such as buses, trains, car sharing and city bikes in one place. There are three steps to solving the problem: (1) development of a unified data model for data on public transport and mobility services in Slovenia and implementation of adapters from their internal formats into a common format for all providers, (2) setting up of the open source multimodal route planner OpenTripPlanner, and (3) the development of a hybrid web and mobile application that presents the aggregated information in one place.