Information visualization project : urban transport visualization

• Main Author: Wong, Nicholas Mun Hoi
• Other Authors: Fu Chi Wing
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62637
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Information visualization was used to communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. Besides that, information visualization can helps to uncover trends, realize insight, explore sources and tell stories. This project first presents a preliminary visualization using EZ-link dataset, this visualization allows user to uncover trends such as peak and non-peak period, commuter’s preferred bus services, estimated waiting time and riding time. The second visualization further uncovered commuter’s decision making before boarding buses, it also identify the loyalty of the commuter’s toward a bus service. This project identified that commuter’s decision may be based on ride distance, waiting time or crowdedness. The visualizations can be handled effortlessly by the user which is simple to learn and use, most importantly the visualizations allows user to construct their stories based on the dataset.