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MOTIVATION

In San Diego, 65% MTS passengers ride buses either to work or school, 25% disabled people primarily choose buses to travel, and most of them have encountered time-wasting experience...

We aim to help bus riders make informed decisions and solve accessibility problem.

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INTERVIEW

We have interviewed bus riders, bus drivers, and people in wheelchairs. Most bus riders have encountered full-bus issue at major bus stations. Bus drivers indicated bus usually get full during rush hours. People in wheelchairs said they cannot get on bus once or twice a week.

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RESOLUTION

iCBus is a multi-platform bus forecasting system. Based on existing drivers' control system, it provides drivers a new interface to send out more valuable information, containing bus capacity and wheelchair availability, which will be synchronously transferred to users' mobile application.

HOW DOES ICBUS WORK?

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INITIAL DESIGN

On the one hand, we want to add weight sensors underneath the bus or use CCTV cameras to measure bus capacity, and display information on screens at major bus stops. On the other hand, we plan to implement accessibility buttons at stations for disabled people to notify drivers of their boarding request.

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FEEDBACK

The cost to add weight sensors and facial recognition cameras might overweight its benefits. Accessibility buttons might be unintentionally pressed by others, such as kids, who do not need wheelchair assistance on bus. There might be more feasible solutions to gather capacity information and help with accessibility.

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FINAL DESIGN

Instead of physical measurement of bus capacity, we created a new system for drivers, who can report real-time information to database when people are boarding. For accessibility buttons, we replaced them in a mobile app, which only activates the function if user is registered to need wheelchair assistance.

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FINAL POSTER

D4SD 2017 Civic Challenge

October 25, 2017

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Design for San Diego (D4SD) is a combined effort to solve complex city problems through design thinking and crowdsourcing, led by the UC San Diego Design Lab—with support from the National Science FoundationDesign Forward Alliance and SCALE SD.

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Team CanMake participated in this challenge with iCBus project, focusing on improving commuter experience and solving accessibility problems. This poster is an illustration of our team’s initial design. After the challenge, we have further improved many aspects, which can be found in detail in design process section above. 

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