Graduation Year
2005
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.C.S.
Degree Granting Department
Computer Science
Major Professor
Rafael Perez, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Miguel Labrador, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Dewey Rundus, Ph.D.
Keywords
GIS, Geodatabase, Spatial analysis, Carpool, Ridesharing
Abstract
The Online Transportation Option System (OTOS) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) that addresses many of the limitations associated with traditional dynamic ridematching applications. The main improvements are in the areas of trip scheduling and match searching. OTOS is unique in its ability to accept trips with schedules that can not be expressed in terms of a regular weekly trip. OTOS also distinguishes itself in its use of spatial analysis techniques to locate matches. Specifically, the use of a shortest path solver enables the ridematching algorithm to perform a search along the path of a user’s trip, in addition to the customary radial search around the endpoints. The shortest path solver is also used to calculate the driving distance between the user and a match. This provides a more accurate measurement than the straight-line distance used by other algorithms, especially in the presence of barriers.
Scholar Commons Citation
Dos-Santos, Sasha, "A geographic information system for dynamic ridematching" (2005). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/2859
