Via the web or smartphone, Bus Tracking System (BTS 2.0) will provide campus transit riders the ability to track Campus Day and Night shuttles - identified by their route - in real-time as they move around campus. With this information, individuals can determine when the next shuttle will arrive - information that can help one decide whether to wait for the next shuttle (possibly freeing up valuable SCMTD bus space for commuters) or to simply start walking (reducing a transit trip altogether.)
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Professor Katia Obraczka and a group of students in the School of Engineering developed the hardware and software during 2008-09, with implementation on numerous TAPS shuttle buses in Fall 2009. While the initial implementation proved the effectiveness of the system, additional enhancements were necessary to accurately identify TAPS shuttles by route. However, those enhancements were delayed by the graduation and departure of the project’s student members.

Kerry Veenstra, a graduate student of Professor Obraczka, has taken on the project of updating the original BTS to “version 2.0” by integrating bus route signs into the tracking system—thereby providing a simple means of identifying the bus by route to both the BTS and potential riders. TAPS is funding development of a prototype BTS 2.0 hardware, with the goal of installing proven BTS 2.0 hardware in at least sixteen Campus Transit buses during 2011-12. This grant proposal requests funding to accommodate installation of BTS 2.0 in five of those buses.

The Bus Tracking System 2.0 meets the Carbon Fund mission explicitly by having a campus administration unit (TAPS) partner directly with SOE students and faculty to provide real-world experience in developing and implementing an Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) system to effectively improve a vital campus transportation service serving the entire campus community. This new system will provide a more reliable system of tracking campus buses, allowing students to make more informed choices of travel mode and providing TAPS with more functional route signs on all our vehicles. Since transit services are a prominent mode choice on campus, the more efficient the service become, the more effective transit will be at lowering climate effects on our campus while still moving individuals around campus as needed. Since TAPS has received various requests for this service in the last few years, we expect high utilization of the program.
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In addition, as AVL systems become more common in transit and transportation systems worldwide, UCSC students will be educated in their use and function and can continue using this travel mode tool wherever they live after UCSC.