Integrating public transportation data: creation and editing of GTFS data

Presented at the 2014 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'14). Serie - Advances in intelligent systems and computing, vol. 276The current state of standardization related to representa tion and exchange of data about public transportation systems is still at its infancy, which leads to severe interoperability issues in projects that depend on the data from several diverse sources. In many cases, the interoperability issues arise from the use of rudimentary information systems, or even paper-based procedures, to manage operational data such as schedules and tariffs. In these cases, exchanging data with external systems is very difficult. This paper describes the development of a web-based application aiming to simplify the creation and editing of public transportation data that could be easily exchanged in a normalized format. This description is preceded by a discussion about a data model that could ease data interoperability. Here, the GTFS reference, with some adjustments, is used as a guideline for the definition of such transportation data model.Research group supported by FEDER Funds through the COMPETE and National Funds through FCT Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under the projects n. 13843 and PEst-OE/EEI/UI0319/2014

An iBeacon-Based Location-Aware Advertising System

The billboard market near its end for the development of electric commerce, especially with the maturing of online advertising systems. Traditional billboards demand innova- tive ways to attract and categorize users; and to direct them to desired advertisements. Location information is the prerequisite to pinpoint the users or customers. Location in- formation collection, GPS and cellular networks are better for outdoor navigation than indoor positioning. The emergence of Bluetooth Low Energy technology provides an effi- cient approach for indoor positioning services. In this thesis, we propose an iBeacon based location aware advertising system to make users acquire the desired advertisement. The system includes the server side, user side and billboard side. We will go into details about its concept, implementation and related background in the thesis. Finally, we analyzed the performance of the system and showed that the system is suitable for indoor environments

An intelligent mobile advertising system (iMAS): Location-based advertising to individuals and business

Rapid expansion of wireless technologies has provided a platform to support intelligent systems in the domain of mobile marketing. Utilizing Location Based Services (LBS) and Global Navigational Satellite Systems (GNSS) infrastructure provides the transport of real-time, scheduled, location-based advertising to individuals and business. In this paper a distributed synchronous platform is proposed called iMAS. iMAS proposes to use an open source platform independent approach to provide the services and interaction with the iMAS system. Intelligent advertising services (IAS) is an integral component of the system and uses a global positioning system (GPS) to enable information to be received depending on the longitude and latitude coordinates of the iMAS device. This allows for contextual information to be used as a means to provide intelligent context-aware location-centric targeted marketing advertisements to the general public. At this stage iMAS is a proof of concept and subsequent research is already under way to test the device in a controlled environment. © 2012 Crown Copyright