What is it about?
A pilot Smart SAT secure mobile app for San Antonio Transit to make critical services available that provides real-time bus arrivals, seat capacity info, and instant alert messages on changes and collects feedback from riders on commute experience.
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Why is it important?
Providing reliable and accessible public transit information can benefit SA transit users, particularly those with low income, reduce their wait time & travel time, ensure accessibility, and promote upward mobility, health, and wellness.
Perspectives
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation’s Grant No. 2131193. Researchers and students from diverse disciplines (sociology, computer science, cyber security, & information science) work collaboratively for developing this tool, collect commuters’ feedback, and deploy data to improve the quality and inclusivity of transit service. The development efforts demonstrate that SmartSAT is a customizable tool with not only provides transportation information to the riders but also collects their commute behaviors and experience feedback toward improving the public transportation system in San Antonio, TX.
Associate Professor Jeong Yang
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
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This page is a summary of: Demo Abstract: SmartSAT - A Customizable Secure App for San Antonio Transit Pilot Project, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3551660.3560910.
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