A public transportation route planning tool: ToTRoP

In this thesis, a web based public transportation route planning tool (ToTRoP)is developed. The routes are generated to transport people to a specific location (ahospital, a stadium, a university campus etc.) while keeping minimum cost andmaximum passenger number. ToTRoP uses Google APIs to convert text basedaddress data into geographical location data and then generates the most beneficialroutes to a target point. ToTRoP is used to derive possible transportation routes fromthe city of Adana to Çukurova University's campus based on the anonymous addressdata of the freshmen students. According to the test results, transportation ofapproximately 76 % of the students is enabled through seven routes. The tool canwork integratedly with other GIS software thanks to WFS support. This featureenables it to be a SOA based GIS application.