Proposal of Railway Route Search System for Finding Living Place

Abstract

This paper proposes a route search system for supporting users to find their living place based on railway information. When we want to find a living place, the access to the place of work or school is usually considered. However, usual railway search systems are designed to search a route from departure station to destination at a specified time. Given the destination station and conditions such as commuting time and the number of connection, the proposed method finds multiple stating stations satisfying the conditions. This paper describes the search algorithm and explains the feedback about a prototype system from the salesperson in a real-estate company.