The problem
Commuters wait without knowing when the next bus will arrive, and many city fleets lack costly tracking hardware.
What to build
Build a system that estimates arrival times from crowd-sourced, anonymised location pings and the timetable, and shows riders a live countdown.
Success looks like
Median arrival error under two minutes on a test route, no personal identifiers stored and graceful behaviour with sparse data.
Suggested technologies
- Crowd-sourced GPS
- Map matching
- Time-series prediction
- Privacy by design
- Mobile app
An original, independent statement. It is not an official Smart India Hackathon problem statement, and Arventiq Labs is not affiliated with or endorsed by that programme. The scenario is illustrative and does not describe any specific organisation. Free to use with credit.