shuttle route optimization for the sector # h-12, islamabad using gis software

2013

SECTION-B

5/23/2013

FINAL PROJECT-SHUTTLE ROUTE MAP

SUBMITTED TO:-

LEC. SAROOP SHAHID

1 FINAL PROJECT-SHUTTLE ROUTE MAP

SECTION-B | Confidential

Group Members

Sr. # NAMES REG #

1 SANWAL ALI (Leader) 107

2 ASAD ULLAH MALIK 16

3 MUHAMMAD AQIB USMAN 53

4 ARSLAAN KHALID 12

5 HASSAN BALOCH 31

6 MUNEEB AFZAL 89

Acknowledgement

First of all, we would thank Allah Almighty because whatever we

are, whatever we do, whatever we did and whatever has been

done by us is solely due to Him and Him alone and rest all are his

creatures which He created to assist us.

We would like to express our very great appreciation to Lecturer

Saroop Shahid for her valuable and constructive suggestions

during the planning and development of this research work. Her

willingness to give her time so generously has been very much

appreciated.

It is also our duty to record our thankfulness to the Lab Technicians

& Lab Instructors of the Computer Lab of NUST Institute of Civil

Engineering for their help in offering us the resources in running

and installing the program.

Finally, we wish to thank our parents for their support and

encouragement throughout our study.



Table of Contents

OBJECTIVE & STRATEGY

o OBJECTIVE

o SOFTWARE USED

ArcGIS DESCRIPTION

ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

o HARDWARE USED

o FLOWCHART (STRATEGY)

ANALYSIS PHASE

o DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM

INTER-CAMPUS TRANSPORTATION

INTRA-CAMPUS TRANSPORTATION

o EVALUATION OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM

DEMERITS

DESIGN PHASE

o BEST PROPOSED VEHICLE

o THE PLAN

NUMBER OF ROUTES

o SCHEDULE OF SHUTTLES

o ROUTE 1- GATE 1 TO GATE 10 VIA CONCORDIA-1

o ROUTE 2- GATE 1 TO GATE 10 VIA CONCORDIA-2

o ROUTE 3- SMME TO RUMI HOSTELS

WORKING WITH ArcGIS

o RECTIFICATION

o DIGITIZATION

o NETWORK ANALYSIS

o MAP LAYOUT

TIMELINE & FUTURE ASPECTS



OBJECTIVE

&

STRATEGY



Objective

To provide an effective transport system in the form of a Shuttle

Service in the National University of Sciences & Technology,

Islamabad.

Our aim was to facilitate the students and faculty with an

efficient, comfortable, economical and reliable Shuttle service.

Software Used:

For our work we have used ARC GIS 10.1 & 9.3.1

Why to use ARCGIS?

o Advantages

Increased demand

User easiness

o ArcGIS makes it simpler to put mapping and

geospatial analytics into the hands of more

people without requiring that they be GIS

experts. o One of the most important aspects of this

release is that ArcGIS users can deliver any GIS

resource, such as maps, imagery, geo-

databases, and tools, as a web service.

Market Share

Other Out-dated technologies



Prevention of Accidents

More safety

Simplicity

Technical support and help

Continuous improvement and

modification in form of newer versions

Various tools available for spatial

analysis

o Disadvantages

Requires large amount of data as a

input which can lead to errors if data

is error prone.(metadata or spatial

data)

Very expensive software

Somewhat slow when compared to

other GIS systems; in processing for

example exporting shape file.

HARDWARE USED

The hardware used are:

I. Laptops & Desktop computers:

On which the softwares were installed.

II. Printers:

Which were used for printing of this report

and the maps for visual side by side

consultation and planning.

III. USB:

For data transferring between computers.



FLOW CHART

ANALYSIS PHASE

DESIGN PHASE

RECTIFICATION DIGITIZATION

NETWORK ANALYSIS

MAP LAYOUT FUTURE ASPECTS



ANALYSIS

PHASE



Analysis Phase

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM

INTER-CAMPUS TRANSPORTATION:-

NUST is a very versatile university which is spread all over

Pakistan in the shape of its various Institutes and Schools. It

has its campuses in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Risalpur &

Karachi. Universities world-

wide spread across their

respective countries have

developed very effective

transportation system for

almost every soul

associated with them.

Presently, there isn’t any

need for an inter-city

transportation system

between NUST’s

Campuses as each

Campus is a university in

itself and a negligible

amount of people travel between them compared to the

number of student & faculty studying & working in them;

even in occasions in which one might think that if a

reasonable service had been provided it would have

been better, for example during Olympiads which are

being organized in H-12 and EME, Rawalpindi from the last



two years, a temporary bus service run at the morning

and returned at the evening suffices the purpose.

INTRA-CAMPUS TRANSPORT:-

Now, our main focus during our research work would be

transporting people from one place to another in a

campus as from the previous paragraph we came to

know that transporting people from one Campus to the

other is not an issue to exert our efforts upon.

It’s a common fact that H-12 Campus of NUST is the

largest campus nationwide among its own Campuses

and also among other universities. Its located on an entire

Sector of Islamabad,

knowing the fact that

the standard area of

each Sector was fixed

to 4 km2 when

Islamabad was

envisaged/planned.

This vast spread

Campus contains

many and different

geographical features due to which Man-made features

are vastly spread. It contains Hostel buildings,

Administrative buildings, recreational facilities like

cafeterias and gymnasium, staff residences, academic



structures like Examination Hall and Institutes. Apart from

the whole infrastructure what the basic demand of every

person coming in NUST, without a personal car, motorbike

or any other vehicles, every person living in it, and every

person studying in it is an effective transportation system

which can carry people and save time which is the basic

need of the hour.

Frankly speaking it’s an honour and prestige to study in

such an institute but with great honour comes great

hardships and one of the major hardships we encounter

every day; may it be of walking long distances from our

hostels to our knowledge centres or going from one

school so third and fourth and vice versa.

The above paragraph is a result of keen observation and self-experience of

students of NUST.

Evaluation of existing system

What is existing system?

o Presently, a shuttle service is being run in NUST

whose photographs and present route map is

shown on the next page. It starts its tour from

SMME and then passes through the following

buildings one by one:



NUST Rapid Transit Bus System

Present Route of NUST Rapid Transit Bus Service

SMME

GHAZALI

HOSTELS

RAZI

HOSTELS

FATIMAH

HOSTELS



1) Attar Hostels (Boys)

2) Ghazali and Razi hostels (Boys)

3) Iftekhar Autos

4) Rumi Hostels (Boys)

5) Habib Bank Limited (HBL)

6) Masjid-e-Rehmat

7) Iqbal Square

8) Institute of Environmental Sciences &

Engineering (IESE)

9) CAMP

10) Concordia 1

And then ends its route near Fatimah Hostels in-front of

the NUST gym. It then runs back to SMME on the same

route covering the same spots again.

o DEMERITS

No specific time is mentioned or

schedule designed for it.

No check or locator to locate its

position.

No route for Gate 10, Gate 1, Isra

Apartments, Medical Centre causing

problems for walking students.

As it is run on electricity, so if its

charging finishes, it takes hours to

recharge.



DESIGN

PHASE



BEST VEHICLE FOR OUR PURPOSE

What we suppose…… A Mini bus containing the

following features

Onspot location of the shuttle on its route

Full-size shuttles come equipped with

wheelchair lifts and bike racks

Buses equipped with web-

based Global Positioning

Systems (GPS) that can

track buses in real-time.

Riders will be

able to track the

location of any

bus on any route

online or by cell

phone

BUS LOCATION



DESIGN PHASE

THE PLAN:

• Number of routes (3):

We proposed 3 routes because these are the

least number of routes that cover all the important

locations in NUST that are frequently visited by students

and faculty members.

More number of routes can facilitate the

students further but that would be uneconomical, so,

while taking all aspects into account, we proposed the

following 3 routes:

i. ROUTE 1- GATE 1 TO 10

ii. ROUTE 2 - GATE 1 TO 10

iii. ROUTE 3 (SMME TO RUMMI HOSTEL)

• Location of stops…… (SHOWN IN MAP LAYOUT)

SCHEDULE OF SHUTTLES

SHUTTLE TIME OF FIRST TRIP

TIME OF LAST TRIP

INTERVAL BETWEEN

TRIPS

WAITING TIME AT GATE 10

ONE SIDED TRAVEL

TIME

1 0800 1900 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES 15 MINUTES





ROUTE 1- GATE 1 TO GATE 10 VIA

CONCORDIA-1

ROUTE DESCRIPTION: This route goes from GATE 1 to GATE 10 and back. This route has been designed especially to fulfil transportation needs of departments of IESE, SCME, NBS, SADA and ASAB. Apart from these education departments, this route also satisfies the needs of hungry students whenever they need to access the famous Concordia 1 café. Ladies of Fatima Hostel and Ayesha Hostel can also utilize this route to travel to departments and GATE 1 and GATE 10.

ROUTE 1 (DIGITIZED)



ROUTE 1 – GATE 1 TO GATE 10 (DIGITIZED)

ROUTE 1- GATE 10 TO GATE 1 (DIGITIZED)



ROUTE 1- GATE 1 TO GATE 10 VIA

CONCORDIA-2

ROUTE DESCRIPTION: This route goes from gate 1 to 10 and back. This route has been designed especially to fulfil transportation needs students going to of NICE, Mosque, Habib Bank and Rector Office. This route also satisfies the needs of hungry students whenever they need to access the newly constructed NG café.

ROUTE-2 (DIGITIZED)



ROUTE 2 - GATE 1 TO GATE 10 (DIGITIZED)

ROUTE 2 - GATE 10 TO GATE 1 (DIGITIZED)



ROUTE 3-SMME TO RUMI HOSTELS

ROUTE DESCRIPTION: This route goes from Rumi Hostel to SMME and back. We thought of proposing this route from Rumi Hostels to Isra Apartments thus making our shuttle service easily available for Faculty Members and Worker Families also, but later through our analysis this route was rejected by our Route Proposer due to its uneconomical & high COST TO PASSENGER RATIO.

ROUTE 3



ROUTE 3 (SMME TO RUMI HOSTEL)

ROUTE 3 (RUMI HOSTEL TO SMME)



WORKING

WITH

ArcGIS



• The digital alignment of a satellite or aerial image with a map of the same area. In georectification, a number of corresponding control points, such as street intersections, are marked on both the image and the map. These locations become reference points in the subsequent processing of the image.

• In this case rectified image was obtained from GROUP 1

RECTIFICATION

• The process of converting the geographic features on an analog map into digital format using a digitizing tablet, or digitizer, which is connected to a computer. Features on a paper map are traced with a digitizer puck, a device similar to a mouse, and the x,y coordinates of these features are automatically recorded and stored as spatial data.

• Following diagrams ilaborate the process of digitization.

DIGITIZATION

Input • Geo Referenced Map (Group 1)

Process

• Database making

• Adding Layer (In this case layer type Polygon)

• Edit tool bar

• Use Line tools

• Tracing feature and adding vertices where required

Output • Digitized roads



INPUT • Rectified Image

PROCESS

• Created Personel Geodatabase Followed By The Creation Of Feature Dataset

• Digitized All the Routes Including Pedestrian Routes

• Created New File Geodatabase For Network Analysis

• Imported Feature Dataset Containing The Digitized Routes

• Created Network Datasets For The Following Three Types Of Route Analysis

• Shuttle Routes Network Analysis

• Personel Vehicle Network Analysis

• Pedestrian Network Analysis

OUTPUT

•Solutions For Shortest Possible Routes In The Following Three Cases While Considering All Types Of Restrictions Simultaneously

•While Using NUST Shuttle Service

•While Using Personel Vehicle

•While On Foot

• Any method of solving network problems such as traversability, rate of flow, or capacity, using network connectivity.

NETWORK ANALYSIS



PROCEDURE FOR NETWORK ANALYSIS

Personel Geodatabase

Digitizatin Of All the Routes Including

Pedestrian Routes

New File Geodatabase For Network Analysis

Imported The Digitized Routes Feature Dataset

Network Datasets For The Three Types

Of Route Analysis

DETAILED

PROCESS

CONTINUED



Solution by The Pedestrian Route Network Analysis

Solution by The Personel Vehicle Route Network Analysis

Solution by The Shuttle Route Network Analysis



• All the process included in producing a map layout as an output is enlisted below in the form of snap shots!

MAP LAYOUT

INPUT

PROCESSED MAP LAYOUT



INPUT

• DIGITIZED SHUTTLE ROUTES

• DATABASE AND MAP FILES

PROCESS

• SPECIFIED THE LAYERS TO BE ADDED IN LAYOUT

• INSERTING LEGEND

• INSERTING NORTH SIGN

• INSERTING TITLE

• INSERTING SCALE BAR

• INSERTING SCALE TEXT

• INSERTING EXPORTING MAP

OUTPUT • MAP LAYOUT OF SHUTTLE ROUTE (IMAGE FILE)



OUTPUT



TIME LINE

&

FUTURE

ASPECTS



ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM

• It will take about 2 weeks

DESIGN PHASE

• It will take about 1 week

TEST & EVALUATION PHASE

• Running it for the first week and collecting data and matching it to our expectations

• It will take about 2-3 weeks.

FUTURE NEW ROUTES

• when Medical College and Sports Complex will be built then new routes can also be proposed

STUDENT ORGANIZED

• to be economical and save money on all the above steps, this work should be given to the students as the final year project.

TIME LINE & FUTURE ASPECTS



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