INTEC creates road support application for users
SANTO DOMINGO. -As part of the research “Design and implementation of an alternative of timely information to the public transport user in Santo Domingo”, and as a road mobility support tool, the engineer VÃctor González Germán as principal investigator, Laura Francis as co-researcher, and his students of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) developed the aplicación móvil de geolocation Buzz app, the one that shows, in real time, All routes de public transport available in Santo Domingo offering insights de tiempo possible of route, distances, cost y drawn of the route.
The investigation was presented during the Second Week of Science who develops the INTEC, with the theme of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The study contributes to the Dominican Republic in its goal of achieving SDG number 11, which aims to "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable."
The investigation yielded two products: the identification of points of origin y public transport destination and the distances of the routes between the different routes of Santo Domingo and the Buzz mobile application, named for the buzzing of bees, insects that stand out for their industriousness and ingenuity and the university's mascot.
González Germán explained that the investigation and the subsequent creation of the App arise due to the Chaos that exists in the city of Santo Domingo, where he Services es inefficient, slow, uncomfortable, expensive, unsafe, pollutant, disorganized e unpredictable, for which this alternative presents becomes a contribution in the search for a solution to a system problem that is usually classified as multifactorial and complex due to the large number of components that make it up.
“Hence the need to offer some kind of solution arises. In our research case, the general objective is to develop and implement an instrument that offers information to the user of public transport and that serves as a basis for decision-making "consents and thus reduces the prevailing misinformation when we expect a public transport service where frequencies they tend to undergo many changes, he notes.
Indicates that the App seeks to generate information for users, with which they can determine in real time the mobile offer and in a second stage until the time of arrival.
Regarding the process carried out for the investigation, González Germán explains that the first thing he did with his students was a survey of the routes that are registered in the General Directorate of Traffic Safety and Land Transportation (Digesett). From this information, they created the “Mapatón”, a digitized route map on which the entire logic of the trajectory of the different routes that exist in Santo Domingo are defined.
They determined that the city Capital has 218 registered routes in the digestett. A total of 204practically the 93%, Operated by the so-called unions. "Our public transport depends on carriages of conchos, which has an average of 25 years of life in operation and that are highly polluting," says González Germán.
The app, which was originally designed for the operating system Android, The iOs version is already being worked on, it is in pilot mode and is being tested by some students from INTEC and the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). Later it will also be available for IOS and open to the public for free.