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July 14, 2006
Bus Live Tracking at USC - Research Project
[EDIT: The network link isn't working at the moment, I've contacted the author.]
A couple of weeks back someone from USC's Info Lab contacted me to tell me about his project to track moving objects and uses Google Earth to visualize the tracking. The significant part of his project is to do near-real-time queries of the nearest moving object to another location. Apparently the bus trams near USC have location trackers (they are not as active during night hours, so wait until after 6 AM Pacific Time). Load up the network link 
to see this in action. Make sure the "Trams" network link is turned on to see if the buses are in motion. The green circles you will see represent the trams that are closest to the 4 stations at the time the query was made to the database. You can turn off the "Tram Map" so you can see the excellent aerial photos of the USC campus while the buses are moving around. Thanks for contacting me Jeff, this looks like a fun project!
There are a number of other cool looking "GEO" projects being done at USC, check out the list here.
Related: Real-time Shuttle-bus Tracking in GE
Posted by FrankTaylor at July 14, 2006 05:12 PM
Comments
Posted by: smokeonit at July 14, 2006 08:23 PM
The network links dont see to work at the moment :(
Posted by: Jimmy Lemon at July 15, 2006 09:32 AM
That's great technology but i don't live near USC, so what's in it for me?
Posted by: Arizona at April 10, 2007 11:29 PM
Last year I developed a complete application to manage a mass transit system. It also can track every bus in Google Earth with realtime update. You can find more information on www.palmbus.it.
Posted by: baz at August 26, 2007 01:40 PM
I'm from South Africa, but I visited Karlsruhe, Germany, recently and used their tram system. They have a website (only German) where once can download an application to you cellphone that allows you to connect to the web and download the time the next tram will be at a specific tram stop. I whish someone could build a simular network link for the Karlsruhe tram system.
Posted by: Stefan at May 9, 2008 03:39 AM
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would be nice to know more about the tech background of this project. what infrastructure is necessary to get this done???
thnx for your great blog;-)