Designing the Wizard Which Simplify the Usage of the QGIS Plugin that Assists in Finding an Optimal Path for the On-demand Traffic Service on Sanyo-Onoda City.

Abstract

We have developed a plugin for QGIS to find an optimal path to support running the on-demand traffic service in Sanyo-Onoda city. In previous research, we re-designed the user-interface of the plugin in order to develop usability. We reviewed the re-designed user-interface with staff from the Sanyo-Onoda city hall who are in charge of the on-demand traffic service. Then, we concluded that the improvement made plugin usage easier, but still users have to set up factors which they do not need to do, such as map layer data and setting for pathfinding. Therefore, in this research, we design the wizard that simplifies the usage of the plugin and additional functions that support the wizard. As an intermediate evaluation, we prototyped the wizard with minimum required functions to find an optimal path and reviewed the usability of the wizard with the staff from the city hall. We concluded that the design of the wizard is exceptional though we need some more adjustment.