1999/2000 HONOURS YEAR PROJECT PROPOSAL

Please return the completed form to Ms Cheryl Lee by 21 May 1999

SoC Advisor Name : Lau Hoong Chuin / Leong Hon Wai Phone : 874-8225 / 874-2903

Email : hclau@krdl.org.sg / leonghw@comp.nus.edu.sg

External Sponsors (if any) :

Project Category (Please specify Hon or Hon/MSc) : Hon

Project Title : Spider (Service planning: intelligent design, evaluation and refinement)

Project Description (Hon-part followed by MSc-part (if any)) :

In Singapore today, 63% of the 7-million passenger trips made are on public transport (MRT and buses). By the year 2030, the projected daily trips will grow to 10 million, 75% of which is made on public transport.

Hence, providing an attractive public transport system is the cornerstone of Singapore’s land transport strategy. In order to increase the attractiveness of public transport over private transport, the service lines must be well-planned. Moreover, changes to existing services must be made in response to:

(a) commuter feedback and requests,

(b) travel demand changes, and

(c) proposals from the regulatory body.

Spider is a project to develop an intelligent decision support software tool to assist public transport planners in the design, evaluation and refinement of bus and MRT line services. The software tool will comprise 3 main modules:

  1. A UI Module for designing bus and MRT services on the Singapore map.
  2. A Route Choice Module for determining the best way to travel between 2 points.
  3. A Simulation Module for evaluating the quality of service lines with respect to its cost and demand coverage.

The deliverables are a technical design document, and a software tool executable on Windows environment.

This work is to be built on a recent NSTB project involving Lau Hoong Chuin and Leong Hon Wai.

Start Date: Duration: Allocation (by bidding?):

Name of Lab Required: Algorithms Lab-Coordinator’s Name/Signature/Date:

Requirements / Availability of Hardware/Software: 1 Pentium II PC, MS Visual C++

Special Knowledge / Skill Required: Visual C++ and Java programming . Interest in algorithms and simulation.

Benefits / Significance of the Project:

The software tool developed can potentially be used by LTA planners or public transport operators (SMRT, SBS, TIBS) for planning of multi-modal public transport services. This is inline with the LTA’s ITMS (Intelligent Transport Management System) Phase II and III initiative whose focus is on multi-modal transport systems.

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