Chen Kuang (SoC), Chew Yu Liang (FoE), Jeremy Lee Jun Wei (FoE), Nabilah Bte Mohamad Rozaini (FoE), Neo Shun Jie (SDE)
Academic Advisor: Dr. Chua Siew Chin
NUS provides internal shuttle buses as the main mode of transportation for commuters within the campus. However, these buses become severely overcrowded particularly during peak hours. This issue will continue to exacerbate with increasing student recruitment. Should frequency of bus services increases to match the demand, the cost on man-hours, fuel consumption, labour, and other resources would be environmentally and economically unsustainable. To tackle the prevalent issue, we plan to implement a mobile application to encourage people to walk instead of taking the shuttle bus service. We also plan to create an algorithm that would allow students to plan their timetable on NUSmods such that their travel distance between classes is minimized. This would incentivize them to walk to their next class instead of taking the shuttle bus. To study what motivates commuters to walk, we plan to survey NUS students to find out the factors of consideration for their transport options. Our mobile application will then concentrate on such motivations to incentivise people to walk. In a nutshell, our research areas will involve three fields:
- What motivates people to adopt the different modes of transport?
- Case studies of societies where the walking culture is prevalent.
- Study of existing/proposed ideas to encourage people to walk and why some of them failed.
Keywords: Transport, Mobility and Air Quality, Energy and Climate, shuttle bus, companionship app.