Real-time bus routing system in Danang City

Abstract

In 2018, the Da Nang administration already approved the ‘Building a smarter city’ project for the 2018 - 2025 period, with a vision towards 2030, with a focus on piloting some smart apps in the aspects of transport, environment, water supply control, food safety, security, education, healthcare, and data sharing. The development of smart cities based on new technology platforms such as IoT, big data, AI. Together with the strong development of IoT technology, the smart transport system can be improved and optimized to bring more convenience for Da Nang citizens. It has allowed the development and deployment of many different service applications in the smart transport field. In this paper, we present the application of LoRa for real-time bus route and schedule time display. Each endnote is placed on the bus in order to collect the GPS coordinates of the bus and send them and the information of the bus to the The Things Network Server through the Gateway via the Internet. A mobile application software supports the users about the bus location, distance and time corresponding to the predefined route. Thus, we propose a hardware solution using LoRa network and routing algorithm to locate users’ and buses positions and also calculate the aforementioned time and distance.