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Tamara Chahine<br />
What the bus, 2011<br />
Mobile application<br />
This project explores ways <strong>of</strong> improving the<br />
experience <strong>of</strong> public transport in Sydney<br />
through commuter-led eorts. Sharing <strong>and</strong><br />
visualising data about the performance <strong>of</strong><br />
transport services can potentially aid <strong>design</strong>ers,<br />
researchers or government bodies in deigning<br />
more informed transport solutions that adapt to<br />
the way services are actually used by commuters<br />
in Sydney.<br />
‘What the bus’ (www.wtbus.net) is a mobile<br />
application <strong>design</strong>ed to allow commuters to<br />
share information about the performance <strong>of</strong><br />
their buses in Sydney. The application allows<br />
users to easily contribute information about the<br />
location, lateness <strong>and</strong> fullness <strong>of</strong> their buses<br />
while they wait.<br />
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This information is then combined with<br />
existing timetable information <strong>and</strong> fed back to<br />
commuters in a number <strong>of</strong> dierent ways: first,<br />
by enabling users to view real-time reports<br />
about their buses; <strong>and</strong> second, in the form <strong>of</strong><br />
various data visualisations.<br />
The project also explores what the aggregation<br />
<strong>and</strong> visualisation <strong>of</strong> this crowd-sourced data<br />
can reveal about buses in Sydney, but also<br />
commuter’s own travel habits. For every bus<br />
route in Sydney, the application creates a ‘pr<strong>of</strong>ile’<br />
<strong>of</strong> performance, which can help commuters<br />
make more informed travel decisions. As well as<br />
this, the application allows users to reflect on a<br />
history <strong>of</strong> their personal travel habits.<br />
Honours: What the bus,<br />
HTML5 <strong>and</strong> Sencha Touch.