Cost Estimation for Real Time Public Bus Monitoring and Intervention System

An International Transit Agency needed a simple yet intelligent solution to automate the operation command centre of a major Public Transport System in South East Asia. It intends to build and deploy an Artificial Intelligence-Driven Public Bus Monitoring and Intervention System to assist the Client-side Operation Command Centre to monitor all bus services in fixed routes and carry out intervention measures, in real-time. This is a state-of-the-art system to ensure seamless public transport.

The Proposed Project Components are;

• Web based Public Bus Monitoring and Intervention System for in-house operators
• Web based admin module for user and access management

After analyzing the requirements, Perfomatix has come up with high-level functionality.

The user roles are as follows:

• In-house Operators
• Admin

The components are

• Web based application for in-house operators
• Web based application for admin user

Functional Specifications- Web application for in-house operators

• Login with security features
• Landing Screen to have the following information;

1. Bus type listing ( truck buses. Feeder buses, Premium buses, Shuttle buses, Nite buses, City direct buses, )
2. Bus number ( dropdown), Origin location ( Dropdown), Destination ( Dropdown)
3. On submit, User should land on a map view page
4. Tasks listings and Notifications bar

• Map view to have the following features;

1. The ability of the user to view the selected bus in the map
2. View bus stopping points
3. User should be able to select bus from a drop-down  and view the locations real-time
4. Show Traffic conditions, Weather details, Restricted Routes, 
5. Show Physical constraints of the bus
6. Physical constraints link should redirect to a pop up showing Physical constraints details ( assuming no charts and graphs will be shown)

• Bus details and Forecast to display the following information

1. Show normal Arrival time on each bus stops ( clicking on  a bus station in the map should show a pop up with arrival time, )
2. Show late by how much time
3. Show Excess waiting time
4. Show total run time ( in Hrs)
5. Show On-time Adherence ( Can be shown in Percentage)

• Notifications Module

1. In-app notifications 
2. Show notifications for events triggered by the third party
3. Can assume up to 10-15 events for a bus

• Comments module

1. Ability of the user to view a modal when selected a notification
2. Add text and submit
3. View comments listing page

• Optimized route

1. Show best routes in the map
2. Real-time bus time calculation
3. Bus timing in Optimized route ( Estimated time)

• Halfway deployment

1. View conditions/ events ( ex- breakdown, accidents)
2. View the substitute bus in the route

• View bus details

1. Current driver details
2. Substitute driver details ( if any)

• AI Integration

1. View dashboard
2. Show Bar chart/ trend chart/Pie chart
3. Statistical data of the following
4. Number of buses in a route
5. Buses and EWT chart
6. Buses and RT chart
7. Buses and on-time adherence chart

• Report generation

1. Download as a PDF report ( filter by date)
2. Number of buses in a route
3. Buses and EWT 
4. Buses and RT 
5. Buses and on-time adherence 
6. Bus drivers export
7. Export map view as PDF

• Search a bus number and view details on the map

Functional Specifications- Web application for admin

• Bus Numbers and Route mapping
• Bus driver and bus number mapping
• Bus driver name and details (Grouping, License registration, Fleet type, Fleet number, Fleet Name, fleet zone, fleet company, fleet manager)
• Create & Manage Tasks for users, Update Task Status
• User action tracking – clicks, log details, errors and generate report as XLS
• View each user’s comments on notifications
• Search comments by users

The process diagram of the solution is shown below;

Module	Recommended Technology Stack
Frontend	Angular
Backend	NodeJS- Loopback
Real time Notifications	Socket.io
Database	MS SQL
Hosting	AWS cloud
Version Control	Github/Bitbucket
CI/CD	Jenkins

Total Project cost including development, testing, and deployment (USD)
Development of  Public Transport Management System	USD 38,000
Estimated Duration	10  Weeks