Showing posts with label BiSCA. Show all posts
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22 February, 2008

تطبيقية الرؤية الملكية في ما يخص السير و النقل العام

The article was published in today's Alghad newspaper, finally... after i sent it Monday the 11th of Feb, 2008. and apprently it reached to a "no mail" email! and was resent several days ago.

Anyway, its better than Alrai who still didnt publish it, and keep ignoring me, and .... care about publishing articles about crying men more than this!


Anyway, here is the published article.

and here is the originally sent one, which happens to be amazingly exactly as the published one! Unlike some other newspapers:

جسد جلالة الملك عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين مطلباً أنسانياً في رسالته و توجيهاته للحكومة باتخاذ الإجراءات اللازمة و الصارمة للحد من حالة الجنون الحاصلة على الطرقات في الأردن، و التي يذهب ضحيتها أرواح أناسٍ من مختلف طبقات المجتمع، و أرواح مجتمعٍ منتشرٍ على مدى هذا الوطن، حتى أضحت شتى عائلات الوطن بريفه و بواديه و حضره يلتئم جرح هذه المآسي التي تتجدد يومياً. ناهيك عن الخسائر المادية التي يتكبدها الوطن يومياً بسبب هذه الحوادث، أكانت على عاتق المتضررين أنفسهم، أو على عاتق الجهات الرسمية.

وكما عودنا جلالته بإشاراته الواضحة إلى الحلول التي تمس حياة المواطنين على مدى وطننا الغالي، أتت توجيهاته بتطوير أنظمة السير و إرفاق تطبيق القوانين بصرامتها دون تهاون مع أيٍ من كان، بإدخال التكنولوجيا إلى قطاع مراقبة السير و التحكم به. كما دعا جلالته في لقائه الأسبوع الفائت مع الكادر الوزاري إلى تطوير النقل العام لجعله أكثر تنظيماً و اعتماديةً للناس، و ذلك بما يدعو إلى جعل مختلف فئات الشعب يعتمدون على النقل العام في تنقلاتهم اليومية، و تحويل هذا القطاع إلى عصب الحياة الرئيسي للمجتمع بمختلف فئاته.

يعتصرني الأسف يومياً عند رؤية أفرادٍ و مسؤولين يديرون قطاع النقل العام ويتخذون من القرارات ما يهم و يعتمد عليه هذا القطاع، و تحدد مصير مئات الآلاف من المواطنين الذين يستعملون هذا القطاع، دون أدنى علم بالكيفية التي يجب أن يدار بها القطاع، لا بل و بدون أدنى خبرة فيه بحكم عدم استخدامهم للنقل العام إطلاقاً !

يعتصرني الأسف يومياً عند رؤية أفرادٍ و مسؤولين يديرون هذا القطاع بالربح السريع و التقليد الأعمى المعتمد على تحقيق المصالح المالية الذاتية، بدلاً من إدارته بما يحقق الفائدة المجتمعية و فائدة الزبون و راحته، و هو الذي يدر بالربح على المستثمر في القطاع،و الذي يتم اعتباره على أنه شخصٌ مقيدٌ و أحمقٌ معتمدٌ على إرادة و جشع المستثمر بكل أسف .و بدلاً من العلم و التكنولوجيا، لا بل و أراهن عدم معرفتهم بوجود علمٍ قائمٍ بحد ذاته بتكنولوجيا النقل و المرور.

لقد آن الأوان بجعل جميع من هم على صلة بقطاعي النقل العام و تنظيم السير من ذوي العلم و الخبرة في هذا المجال، و أعني بذلك الخبرة العلمية الأكاديمية، و الواقعية التطبيقية القائمة على التفاعل بمن يستفيد من القطاع. كما آن الاوان الى إدخال التقنيات الحديثة في كلا القطاعين لزيادة التنظيم و الفعالية و الأمان لمستخدميه، و بما يسهل على الجهات الرقابية في دائرة السير في النقل العام على ضبط المخالفين للقوانين و التعليمات و إلحاق العقوبة الصارمة بهم.

فمن أنظمة المراقبة و السلامة على الطرقات، و التي تؤمن عبر لوائح إلكترونية تنبيه السائقين بحالة الطريق و السرعة الملائمة للقيادة عليه، اعتمادا على أجهزة المراقبة الميدانية و الدوريات الشرطية على تلك الطرقات، و المزودة بكاميرات متتالية على طول الطريق لمراقبة السرعات و أزمنة عبور المركبات، ليتم بالإمكان ضبط المركبات التي تطلبت أوقاتاً أقل للعبور بين أجزاء الطريق، و المساعدة في تحديد مواقع المركبات المطلوبة للأجهزة الأمنية. إلى أجهزة التاكوغراف الحديثة في وسائط النقل العام و التي لا يمكن للسائقين و المشغلين التلاعب بها لمخادعة رجال السير الذين يقومون بواجبهم لأجل مصلحة أولائك السائقين و المشغلين، و ضمانة الركاب في وسائط النقل التابعة لهم.

إلى تطوير النقل العام المدني و الارتقاء به إلى مستوىً يليق بالتطور الهائل في جميع المجالات التي حصلت مؤخراً في مملكتنا، أكان ذلك تطويراً في الخدمة و مستواها و شبكة انتشارها للعامة، أم في جودة وسائط النقل و حالتها التقنية، و جودة سلامتها من حيث تأثرها و ركابها بمختلف الأحوال الطارئة و الحوادث لا سمح الله، وملائمة هذه المركبات لمن يستقلها من جالسين وواقفين و مُقعدين من ناحية النظافة و المقاسات الداخلية و المواد المستعملة في أجزاء وسيطة النقل. و تجاوز ذلك إلى تطوير عملية النقل العام برمتها بتطبيق أنظمة النقل الذكية التي تنظم حركة الوسائط و جدولة مواعيدها بشكل صارم، و تراقب الحركة بشكل دقيق يضمن الإلتزام بالمسارات و خدمة الزبائن (أي الركاب المسكين في نظر الجشعين من المستثمرين في القطاع) بالشكل الأمثل، و إيجاد البدائل الملائمة في حال حدوث عطل أو طارئ أثناء الحركة. و توفير المعلومات الصحيحة و الدقيقة للمشغلين و السائقين و الركاب الذين لن يلبثوا أن يزدادوا تبعا بازدياد الثقة بالقطاع. و أخيرا، بتطوير اعتمادية وسائط النقل العام على مصادر الطاقة البديلة المتطورة بما يضمن تثبيت سعر التكلفة، وإيجاد وسائل تشجيع استخدام النقل العام كالـ Park and Ride و الـ BRT و المناطق المغلقة عن حركة السير باستثناء النقل العام في المدن، مؤديا بذلك إلى زيادة تنافسية القطاع و زيادة الإعتمادية عليه.

كل ذلك يجب أن يشكل منظومة متكاملة يجب تطبيقها من و إلى الوطن، بطاقات الوطن و عقوله و هممه بما يناسب العامة، وبما يناسب مواردنا المحدودة. و ليس بعقود مع جهات مشبوهة تنهش أموال الوطن و تصدرها إلى الخارج بلمح البصر، دونما تنفيذٍ للعهود أو تطبيق للعقود، ليبقى المواطن ضحيةً، لجشع يريد استغلاله، و مستثمر ينهب أموال ضرائبه، و مركبة تنهك صحته و سائق متهور يدمر عائلته.

نسيم التميمي*

* واحد من ثلاثة مطورين و مهندسين للبرمجيات كانوا قد قاموا في الجزء الأول من عام 2006 بتطوير مشروع جدولة و تحكم و معلومات الباصات في عمان و المعروف بإسم بيسكا.
Bus Information, Scheduling, and Control for Amman – BiSCA
nasim@project-bisca.com

02 October, 2007

PRAGUE!

Well, for those who don't know, I wasn't in town during the 1st half of September, I was on vacation to Romania, as well as a business trip to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

And since i have other posts across my blog about Romania in the archives, lets go and Czech out baby :)

My non-business related business in prague was actually related to Project BiSCA, me and my other 2 colleagues, ehab and fayez participated in a conference entitled “Transtec”, this is an international conference that cares about the evolution of transportation technologies in general, including green cars, human machine interaction, intelligent traffic system, or intelligent transportation systems. And Transtec 2007 was in prague, and BiSCA was a participant in there with a paper entitled by the name of the project “Bus Information, Scheduling, and Control for Amman”. Representing by that Jordan and the entire MENA region

So after a lot of calls, emails, faxes, and whatever you want, in order to get a sponsor for our participation in Prague's Transtec 2007, no body here in Jordan dared to help us, actually, all of our attempts to get sponsorship were completely ignored, and we are talking about big organizations that you read day by day publicity about them and their activities in the media ... yes, they didn't even dare to say “NO”, or “SORRY” .... well except for 1 organization that said they cannot help us since we are not an NGO, and 2 that supposedly tried, and then apologized. So there it was, I got my vacation hooked up with the conference, and did both with my own money.

1st of all, talking about the conference, it was amazing to see how research and development is that well established in some part of the world that is not that far from here! Nor from Romania.

A lot of czech companies, just like AZD Praha, Skoda motors, and others, as well as international companies working in the czech republic, like Sun Microsystems, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, Siemens, and other. Are so cooperative with the technical and technological universities and their students. Not only as supporters and sponsors for the students, but even appreciators for their ideas in the industry, and even trying to involve their research and development departments to cooperate with the students after graduation and with the universities from which they graduated to implement it in the industry.

And By the way, this care of research and development I saw in the Czech republic is claimed to be “POOR”! Come and see Jordan baby...!

one very simple example was that the Traffic light management systems on the streets of Prague is nothing but an implemented university project. One that was well supported by companies in the industry, the local authorities, and even the European Union and Galileo.

The number of people in the conference weren't that much, but the quality of the participants was very high, actually, I was the youngest in there, and we were the only participants with a BS degree! And beside being from the middle east, all of there 3 were positive impressions for the people getting to know about us.

One thing that, I didn't expect, was that each and every person who heard about our project or attend the session was “Impressed”, one Japanese professor was even wondering how come this idea is not appreciated that much in Jordan, when a public transportation operator in his home-town in Japan is willing to apply such a system with all the ideas and services we provide in BiSCA, and is having trouble having someone developing it! Some people from Mott MacDonald were even interested in being consultants for the project's implementation in Amman, and even in being consultants in further related project as traffic management systems and their integration with BiSCA. Do read this GAM, do read this PTRC, do read this CMTC .... Mott MacDonald, the 2nd largest consultants house in the world!

Our paper can be found in the conference's proceeding HERE

Talking about Prague, well, I liked the czech republic in general, though all my pass from the Slovakian borders until prague was a night drive through were i saw nothing :P

Prague, 7:30 AM local time, on the autobahn between Brno and Prague, I look to the left, Oh, its a business companies compound, who is there, Sun Microsystems, Samsung, IBM, Microsoft ... and others...

Yes, you heard me right dear Java Developer, Sun Microsystems :)

well, they also have Oracle, but thats somewhere downtown nearby the Bus and train terminals, I passed by it too ...

and by the way, Oracle has ads on the streets in Prague, seems people out there know whats Oracle, and know what's a CRM :)

in Prague, Public transportation is everywhere ... tram, urban buses, metro....

in Prague, there are cool radio station's :) especially Radio Beat (which is a classic rock radio), and Radio Expres (Prague's Nr 1 Hit music station with a popular American dude doing the morning show in weekdays).

in Prague, love is everywhere, in everything ... people love life, love what they do, love the traffic jams, love listening to that American dude on the radio during the traffic jam, love work ... Yes, I didnt see a single person asking for money! Everyone works, even disabled people, even blind old women ... they sing opera songs on the street ... but they dont beg you for money!

in Prague, women are gorgeous, men are hard-workers, Czech women are not demanding though like our shitty women in here! 2 examples were the following:
a guy, a colleague student, was working a part time job as a “Street sweeper” ... I saw 2 girls trying to hookup with him.
A Man standing in the street as a silent actor, wasn't moving and doing anything, unless you pay him something in that hat. Well, a bunch of czech chicks passed, so he moved “for free” for them trying to get their attention, the girls stopped and started looking and what he is doing... he was kind of “silently acting flirts” ... they became all red flushed, and he air-kissed one girl ... she turned into 250 shades of red :)
i'm just wondering what would have happened to any of those guys above if they were in Jordan .... I'm imagining :(

in Prague, the industry is very well developed, be it technological industry, technical industry, or tourism industry! Jordanian people in tourism, GO AND LEARN! A bus ticket from the deadsea to Amman cannot cost 10 JDs if you want a proper tourism industry!

In Prague, the valtava is awesome ... it carries out the city's love and spreads it out across the town.

In prague, you can see all sort of people getting into public transportation, from business managers, to professors, to students ,, and even couple who keep kissing for over 20 minutes without anyone annoying them or even looking at them (in comparison to the next day where in Amman I saw 4 guys staring at 2 normally dressed girls and saying “Allahomma inni sa2em .. astaghfar allah!) .... and all of those above get into public transportation without having to wait that much, nor fight for a seat (because you will get a fine if you get your butt unto a seat while a child or an old man or woman is standing), nor have their clothes dirty from the seats (in case seated) , nor get confused because the bus or tram is running on a route other than the one displayed on the digital (or even manual) board in front of the public transportation mean ... simply because its not that of an invention to change the board displaying the route for the people outside!

in Prague, they have worst traffic jams than in Amman, amazingly, no body there uses the horn! I guess they figured out it wont get to progress anything in the jam.

In Prague, all the governmental departments are branded.

In prague, garnet can be found more than bread.

In prague, all sorts of bread are delicious :)

in prague, food is delicious :)

in Prague ... I fell in love with a city.

In Prague, i'll be spending my honeymoon one day :) [no more Maldives :P ]

in Prague, I left a piece of me ...... and i will get back to put another piece!



The Valtava river


The Old Chapel


The Astronomical Clock (It works!)


Karlov Most (King Charles Bridge)


Karlov Most from the opposite view, including the king's castle up the hill to the right ... by the way, I used to pass this bridge around 4 times a day :) It is one of the 1st things I fell in love with in Prague :)

28 August, 2007

BiSCA's second mass-media appearance, Al-Rai Newspaper :)

Yes, we ARE in today's Al-Rai newspaper :) Link HERE

and BiSCA Display is out there as well :)

this is BiSCA's 2nd mass-media appearance, after AmmanNet's feature on Mohammad Shamma's Sayyara FM last january.

& by the way, I mentioned a linkout this morning also from this forum.

27 June, 2007

بيسكا تحذّر

.. من عواقب استمرار وضع قطاع النقل العام على هذه الحال في عمان...

و في حال استمرارها و عدم ايجاد "الحل" نؤكد لكم أن الوصول من الجامعة الأردنية الى العبدلي سوف يكون أسرع مشيا من أن يكون باستخدام سيارة خلال الصيف القادم.


و ما تحكوا إنّي ما قولتلكوا

12 June, 2007

The PTRC lunches a Traveler Information On-Line Service. PS: IT IS NOT BiSCA!

So, The Public Transportation Regulatory Commission, had finally got their Online Traveler Information Services unleashed for the public!

yes, starting yesterday, you are now able to see all the public transportation lines operating through the capital, and even through jordan, embedded in from their GIS system!

By the way, this is one of the "add-on" services available on BiSCA's plan, and the release of this service comes right after BiSCA's public announcement of providing public transportation information services throughout BiSCA's website (www.project-bisca.com) later this summer, and which can be heard HERE in last week's Sayara FM on Radio AmmanNET 92.4 FM. despite the fact that those services will be static and not dynamic as planned for when BiSCA will be implemented.

anyway, sounds interesting, so, lets try it!

go to www.ptrc.gov.jo, and you will be linked to this server that will provide this service (http://193.188.87.69/PTRC/).

Rule Nr 1: NEVER EVER provide a direct IP address for your server over the web.

So ... we get in, and surprise surprise, its the GIS software it self! yes, its just a "deployment version" of their GIS software, where all you can do is to "export to-> web", changing the links to arabic, add some links, changing the title and logo.. and there you go!
and guess what, the entire GIS system is loaded on the client side with the maps using a Java Applet!

Rule Nr 2: Never EVER use Java Applets for extensive usage over the World Wide Web! as not all the client might have a java virtual machine, and as it will be heavy on their machines and communication network!

now the next thing was, after waiting alot of time for the Java applet to load, the maps were corny, and the usability of the zooming and movement was slow and not usable at all,... until now, i couldnot zoom into the city of amman by the way.

Moving further, goes the great "Route finder" service. and this is what i'm going to concentrate about.

First of all, you should search the beginning and end points! for example, I wrote "Sweileh" in arabic and i got 7 results! "Dawwar Sweileh","Jeser Sweileh", "Mothallath Sweileh", "Madeenet Sweileh", "Swelileh", "Morooran be baldet Sweileh" ... etc.

Conclusion, there are duplication in nodes, and no clear points entered in that database, which means that including "Sweileh" in the search will not be the same as including "Dawwar Sweileh" in it, as those are 2 different nodes, and lines passing by 1 of them is not the same as the other.

similar cases can be found with alot of other known points, for example there are 3-4 nodes with the same name of "Amman", as well as other 10s with "Amman" part of their name!

... now comes the misery, I decided to search for the optimal route between "Sweileh" and the Medical City, I GOT THIS!



Nice! I should go from Sweileh to zarqa, and back to Baqa'a through Sweileh to get the Zarqa bus that goes to the Medical city! Halaloooia!

By the way, viewing the paths of the results you will figure out more leashes secrets for the fact that all those information the PTRC has are OUTDATED!

1 simple examples is the search i did for the buses between Jerash and Zarqa, the results gave me there are 4 buses and 1 Service on the route! which is wrong! because ever since 2002 until now, there 2 service cabs and 11 buses! and I know the plate numbers and driver names of all of them! (I mean, if you know that those information of numbers of buses operating on the lines are not appropriate! why are you making them public! ahh ... sorry, or you do not even know that those data do not match reality!).

Now I can say .... BiSCA is coming!

27 May, 2007

1 year of BiSCA out of the box..

1 year of getting BiSCA out the box ....
...
so where are we at ... after 1 year of graduation ...
after 1 year of BiSCA ...
I guess ill talk about the graduation later, that will be exactly as a year will due from my official graduation.

now about BiSCA... it was really amazing how we were a couple of weeks away from submitting the graduation project, an nobody had even a clue about how our system looks like :P this is what we like to call iterative development using the unified process :)

after 1 year, BiSCA is still not implemented in amman, and not even planned to be implemented.
after 1 year, we have been through the media (not any usual media... since the usual media doesnt have time for us! an article about BiSCA in Al-Rai newspaper was set to be published since the end of last month, and until now its waiting in the "queue"!).

after 1 year, BiSCA has version 0.1 of its website, which will notice the launch of a public service of BiSCA later by the end of this summer. as an initiative by the 3 of us, the founders of BiSCA ... by the way, we need a stress test for the server, so please do not hesitate to ping the website as much as you can.

after 1 year, BiSCA has participated in a couple of technology conferences, one in Jordan, and one in malaysia, amazed many, and made alot others wonder.

after 1 year, BiSCA will be representing jordan and the middle east in Transtec in Prague, and no one is ready to support us to go there ... we barely paid the fees of the conference.

after 1 year of BiSCA , some officials got amazed, others claimed such systems are available everywhere! conclusion, no body is doing anything!

after 1 year .... we are still aiming high, and we promise you all, that even if BiSCA will not get implemented, you will find that BiSCA will have a role in public transportation within this year by our individual efforts.

Happy Birthday BiSCA

07 May, 2007

www.project-bisca.com

V 0.1 is UP :)

.. of the website not the system!

More soon ...!

18 March, 2007

BiSCA @ DCCA 2007

BiSCA will be participating in DCCA, which will be the 1st conference BiSCA will ever participate in.

The 1st International Conference on Digital Communications and Computer Applications (DCCA2007) is a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of Digital Communications, Computer Science, and Information Technology. DCCA2007 will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following research topics

DCCA will be held in parallel with WEBIT2007 as well.

You all are invited to attend BiSCA's session at the Amman Intercont'l hotel, Tuesday the 20th of March, Between 11-1 PM at Nebo meeting room.

31 January, 2007

Project BiSCA's 1st mass-media appearance in its 1st birthday.

Project BiSCA (Bus Information, Scheduling, and Control for Amman), which is our (that is Ehab Al-Hakawati, Fayez Al-Rafeaa, and yours truly Nasim Al-Tamimi) University graduation project, and turned later by us into a pilot project aiming by that for it to be improved and implemented. BiSCA got last Sunday, the 28th of January 2007, its first ever nation-wide mass-media attention. When it was featured on Radio Amman Net 92.4 FM, through the only radio show in the Jordanian radio sphere concerned in traffic and transportation issues. “Sayara FM” with Mohammad Shamma.

The mass-media premier of project BiSCA to the nation featured the three of us, celebrating a year since project BiSCA's initialization with a very high confidentiality and hope that turning project BiSCA into a Pilot Project will be bringing BiSCA deeper into the Jordanian public transportation's reality. Along with a more sharpen view of what we have already done, and where we are heading to with project BiSCA.

Mohammad Shamma, the editor and presenter of “Syara FM” discussed with us the facts and applicabilities BiSCA will be affecting the urban public transportation sector in Amman when applied.

Mr Shamma also contacted Mr Hashem Masaeed, head of Jordanian Public Transportation Regulatory Commission, Mr Yousef Borno, head of traffic engineering dept in Amman Greater municipality, and Mr Abdul Sattar abu Hassan, The regional Vice-president of the International Union for Public Transportation and the owner and founder of Asia Transport Co. in order to discuss with them the possibility of applying such a project in Amman.

Personally speaking, I found both Mr Abdul Sattar, and Mr Yousef Borno positive regarding our project, and discussing the further technical details with us, and the possibility of integrating it with what they are trying to have/apply in the Greater Amman Municipality, and the newly founded Integrated Transportation Co respectively in the domain of Traffic and Transportation Information Systems.

On the other hand, also personally speaking, Mr Masaeed's response didn't sound that positive to me! Or didn't have time to get into a discussion about it.... I'll leave it for you to listen and judge!

By the way, I got to know the Mr Abdul Sattar abu Hassan already knew something about project BiSCA since he happened to read my blog from time to time :)

Yes, you can still listen to the show by clicking on this link (you can right click and save it as MP3). And even read the article published in AmmanNet's website about it.
The show will be also re-broadcasted this Thursday, at 11:30 AM on radio Amman Net, through 92.4 FM in the greater amman area, or through www.ammannet.net .

After a year of getting deeper than usual through the status of urban public transportation in the capital Amman, after conducting the most powerful standardized define and design methodologies for the project, And taking care of each and every tiny cost detail in it... after spending non stop days and nights trying to resolve some unexpected cases, after a bunch of locked doors in our faces turning us to depend totally on our selves in the project, after having the weirdest day of my life as the day when we had the project's presentation and my CPU and motherboard went dead, singing all sort of graduation songs. And after participating at a Zombie graduation projects competition.

Project BiSCA is now officially a pilot project. And an initiative lead by us to improve the urban public transportation sector in Amman.

We are ready for the challenge ....
We are ready for the mission ....
We are ready for changing what couldnt be resolved for years ...
We ARE Ready ....

Are YOU ready?!
WE know who YOU are meant to be .... Yes ... YOU ... are YOU READY for BiSCA!

26 May, 2006

Bus Information Scheduling and Control for Amman (BiSCA)

Project BISCA, standing for Bus Information, Scheduling, and Control for Amman, is one aiming to develop a computerized distributed Urban Public Transportation Information System, customized for the city of Amman, with centralized processing and data-warehousing. A project that relays under the category of Traveler and Transport Information Systems, and that was purposed to be in-charge of the public transportation half of the urban Traveler and Transport Information Systems' concept.

Building an Urban Public Transportation Information System was to comply a need for making the urban public transportation sector more attractive for the public, as a solution for the traffic problems a resident of Amman would obviously notice nowadays. The solution was based upon the power of providing the information to whom it may concern; making the urban public transportation more attractive as more information, dynamic information in particular, are provided for the public regarding their movements, and at the same time the whole industry of urban public transportation to be made better managed, controlled and organized, the latter of which can not be done without the power information, this time provided for the personnel working the urban public transportation industry, either supervisors, executives, or the fleet drivers their selves.

The project was implemented upon strong bases of information gathered from both world wide experiences in this field, as well as information gathered from the local urban public transportation industry, understanding the local needs and difficulties in this field, and matching them with unimplemented solutions suggested locally to gather with solutions found for similar cases and measures in the world wide experiences that were studied. All of these information, measures and solutions gathered and studies were structured using Software Engineering methodologies and framed in clear requirements, which were later structured with all their tiny details and set as scenarios to be developed.

This project consists of a centralized unit in charge of and manging the system's processes, calculations, and data-warehousing, along with a set of distributed subsystems through which the system's users get their services from the system, those are illustrated in an administration software that enables transportation company's administration to control the data available in the system's data warehouse. A supervision screen that enables the supervisor at the main bus terminal to supervise and control the buses' movements and the system's solutions in the unusual occurring cases. A situated display at the stations informing the passengers about the buses they are waiting for at that station and the times needed for the buses to reach that station. And a portable device's micro edition software on the handsets installed on the buses' boards, in charge of tracking the buses' positions and enable the interaction between the driver and the server, reporting about the difficulties he might be facing and receiving control and scheduling orders.

The project has been mainly developed using Java Standard Edition Technology in all its subsystems excluding the software on the handsets installed in the buses, which has been developed using Java Micro Edition. The data-warehouse was designed and developed on an Oracle Database Management System. The whole software engineering process of the project was implemented according to the Unified Process methodology.

more info at www.project-bisca.com

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