Yang, Jeffrey: Representing Transit Data in Mobile Applications

Title: Representing Transit Data in Mobile Applications

Name: Jeffrey Yang

Major: Computer Science

School affiliation: School of Arts and Sciences

Programs: Aresty Summer Science Program

Other contributors: Zhe Huang, Xiang Liu

Abstract: Bus transit data is widely provided using the GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) data format. However, the GTFS component structure does not allow for easy lookups of information between components, so the data needs to be reformatted into modified data structures in order to be efficiently used in a mobile application. Therefore, this project aims to restructure the transit data in order to design algorithms that are able to search through components to find specific information.