Demonstration Experiments of Location Information Delivery System in Toyama Light Rail Transit

Abstract

It is very important for them to reduce the waiting time at tram station when residents and visitors do not know the tram timetable. In order to accomplish that, we propose a tram location and route navigation system by using smartphone. The system is able to easily retrieve information about tram's locations obtained by GPS. It also can providing users with the shortest walking route to the nearest tram station. For evaluating the usefulness of this system, we performed the demonstration experiments on an actual LRT system “Centram” in the center of Toyama city.