1. Anthony Burns
Rebecca Thierman
Amanda Vitiello
Dr. Robert Paaswell

2. Overview
 Project Development
 Objective
 Research
 Product Design
 Q+A

3. How do smart technologies affect urban transportation?
How can they help urban transportation be more
sustainable?
Planning &
Operations
Sustainability
Ubiquitous
Technologies
Public Transit

4. What is Sustainable Transportation?
 Smart Growth
 Make it easier to use the various
transit options
 Integrate system tools
 Resiliency, Agility, Adaptability
 Low CO2 Emissions
 Optimal Planning and Management
KEY WORDS
Diverse Modes
Multi-modal
Seamless
Well-integrated
Real-time Data
Communication
Ease-of-use
Experience > Commute
Paradigm Shift

5. What is Sustainable Transportation?
 Smart Growth
 Resiliency, Agility, Adaptability
 Easy to access info. and
alternative ways to travel
 Low CO2 Emissions
 Optimal Planning and Management
KEY WORDS
Diverse Modes
Multi-modal
Seamless
Well-integrated
Real-time Data
Communication
Ease-of-use
Experience > Commute
Paradigm Shift

6. What is Sustainable Transportation?
 Smart Growth
 Resiliency, Agility, Adaptability
 Low CO2 Emissions
 Efficient systems
 Low-no carbon modes
 Optimal Planning and Management
KEY WORDS
Diverse Modes
Multi-modal
Seamless
Well-integrated
Real-time Data
Communication
Ease-of-use
Experience > Commute
Paradigm Shift

7. What is Sustainable Transportation?
 Smart Growth
 Resiliency, Agility, Adaptability
 Low CO2 Emissions
 Optimal Planning and
Management
 Gain effective data sets
 Mitigate travel
 Monitor trends
 Interact with users
KEY WORDS
Diverse Modes
Multi-modal
Seamless
Well-integrated
Real-time Data
Communication
Ease-of-use
Experience > Commute
Paradigm Shift

8. Transit Planning Data Collection in Other Cities
Seoul Metro
Making better transit
planning decisions with
smart card info.:
• mode
• departure date and
time
• boarding time
• number in a party
• boarding fare
• alighting fare
• travel distance
• arrival date and time

9. Social Media in Other Cities
New Jersey Transit
2014 surveys via
Facebook and Twitter:
#1 concern of
passengers…?
Customer Service
training refreshers

11. Over Capacity
…mitigate and diverge via an
app

13. Off-schedule
…provide real-time data with
an app

16. App Users
possible untapped resource

17. Location-Based Application Trends
 74% get directions or other information based on their current
location
 30% say that at least one of their social media accounts is
currently set up to include their location in their posts
 20% get up-to-the-minute traffic or public transit info. to find the
fastest way to get somewhere

18. Findings on Transit Apps
Apps can be broken into three categories
 A static map, timetable, and status information
 NYC Subway map app
 NJ Rail app (MNR and LIRR)
 Citibike
 Route generating and navigating
 Google Maps
 CityMapper
 Roadify
 HopStop
 RideScout
 Waze
 User interface data push
 Uber
 Via
 GETT

19. Application Reviews
RideScoutRoadify
 Departure/Destination
 Trip duration
 Mode choice
 Departure/Destination
 Route options
 Trip duration
 Cost

20. Application Reviews
Google Maps CityMapper
 Mode choice
 Departure/Destination
 Route options
 Trip duration
 Mode choice
 Departure/Destination
 Route options
 Trip duration
 Cost
 Calories burned

21. TimeOut NY
Inspiration and
Ideas for
Lifestyle App
 Health = Runkeeper
 Monetary = Mint
 Travel = TripCase
 Weather = Weather app
 Social = FB or Twitter
 Events = TimeOut NY or Evenbrite
 Schedule = Google or CUNY
 Navigation = CityMapper
RunKeeper Mint TripCase Weather
Facebook CUNY CityMapper

22. Up-to-date
notifications
about problems
and delays
User’s Journey
through
Real-time
arrivals for all
public transit
Learn what
other riders are
saying

23. Settings Goals

24. Trip Example

26. Humble Brag

27. Conclusions
EDUCATION & TRANSPARENCY
TECHNOLOGY
EMPOWERING
DECISION MAKING
SUSTAINABLE
TRANSPORTATION

28. Future Work
 Investigate the millennial generation and the equity of the future of the
smartphone apps
 Study of how ridesharing could take away ridership of public transit.
 Prototype of the proposed application

29. We would like to thank the CCNY faculty and staff for their continued support and encouragement: Dr.
Robert Paaswell, our capstone supervisor; Professor Alan Feigenberg; the program director, and Mr.
George Smith the program coordinator; we offer our sincere appreciation for the learning
opportunities. We are thankful for their aspiring guidance, invaluably constructive criticism, friendly
advice during the project work, and are sincerely grateful to them for sharing their truthful and
illuminating views on a number of issues related to the project.
Our completion of this project could not have been accomplished without the support of our significant
others and families– thank you for allowing us time away from you to research and write.
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Other:
Pew Survery: http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/