traffic viewer contribute to smooth movement using public transportation by providing detailed information on railway operations and visualizing them using diagrams to make it possible to grasp the operation status at a glance. It shows the operation history of each of the 42 routes in the Tokyo metropolitan area in a diagram format so that you can avoid crowded trains and travel smoothly.
traffic viewer displays the location of the trains running on the 42 routes by route. Information such as “Where is the train I'm supposed to take?” or "How many minutes is the train delayed which I'm going to take? “is presented in a table format.
In addition, you can obtain detailed operation status during transportation disruptions, such as "Is the train I want to take running?" or " How many cancellations are occurring on the entire route?”
This app also shows which routes in the Tokyo metropolitan area experience delays. This prevents incidents such as "The train was supposed to be running normally, but in fact it is delayed.”
Tokyo TravelKit is an open source web app designed with multilingual support for foreign travelers. Currently, it supports English and Simplified Chinese as the primary display languages. I have experienced the complicated public transportation system in Tokyo as a foreign visitor. There are not only so many train lines to choose from, but also multiple train service types to choose from, such as local, semi-express, and express, so we need to be careful. This app aims to help travelers find which train to take and make their journey smoother and easier.
The app has four main tabs: "Destination," "Station," "Ticket" and "Flight." Each of these tabs shows a train travel planning function, a train station timetable information function, links to discount tickets from various companies, flight departure/arrival information, etc.
The app source is available on GitHub, so users with programming skills can modify it to make travel smoother than before.
We have developed "Tokyo Train Delay (TTD)," a Twitterbot that provides real-time train delay information, and a web application that provides detailed, concise, and easy-to-read real-time train delay information. TTD’s bot uses open data to tweet delay information on the public transportation in the Tokyo metropolitan area appropriately. TTD runs the program at regular intervals, checks for the delays, and tweets if there is a delay.
By following the Twitterbot, you can obtain real-time delay information for each line. By retweeting TTD's tweets, you can share delay information on each line with more people.
Information on each delayed line is displayed in red in the web app, so you can grasp the status of each line at a glance. In addition, the number of passengers getting on/off at individual station is shown to let people avoid crowd concentration at each station. Our software is also available in English, so both Japanese and foreigners can use it for smooth movement and comfortable living in Tokyo.
“Environmental considerations" are now common concern around the world. However, Japan lags behind. Five of the 17 items in the SDGs are judged to be red (not handled adequately) including all three items related to the environment in Japan. We have developed this app that shows environmentally friendly routes and spots when people search for routes and destinations with the aim contributing to the fundamental solutions to environmental issues.
This app shows both normal route and environmentally friendly route, which provides an opportunity for users to take environmentally friendly actions in the daily living during one is “traveling.” In addition, by introducing the environmental efforts of train stations, restaurants, etc. by means of grades on the search result screen, users can choose the services they use based on environmental indicators. This should motivate enterprises to develop eco-friendly services.
The UI was designed with attention to the visually challenged people, and the colors were formulated in green and orange using the result of psychological research.
Conventional transit information apps only show the timetable of a single train corresponding to a set of departure and arrival times. Train diagram builder displays the timetable of the first train to the last train in an easy-to-understand manner. This allows for flexible travel planning, paying attention to transfer times, detours and stopovers along the way.
With this app, you can not only get a rough idea of the departure/arrival times and locations of trains on a drawn graph, but you can also display detailed information such as the type of train and the starting and final destination of a train by tapping the circle of the station where the particular train is stopping. On train lines near Tokyo, express trains tend to be more crowded than non-express trains, and trains coming from far away tend to be more crowded than trains that have just left the first station nearby. It is meaningful for users to be able to avoid such crowded trains and find uncrowded trains arriving before or after such crowded ones in the COVID-19 age.
