A Complete Multi-ModalCarpooling and Route

Planning Solution

Julien-Samuel Lacroix@juliensam

CADUS

CADUS' mission is to encourage active transit and multiple occupant alternatives to single occupant transit, from a sustainable development perspective, while considering the collective well-being of our region.

Saguenay, the city

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, the region

Problematics

● Cars are not better than other means of transport;

● 10 452,40 $/year for a car;● In cities, bicycle and bus trips are often

faster than finding a parking spot;● In rural areas, active transit and multiple

occupant transit is possible, but requires an effort.

Current solutions

● Google Transit when available● Carpool services and websites● Smart phones, GPS● Uber?

Our solution

● Help people to get around more easily.● Analyse people commute.● Provide feedback to transit generating

transit organisations.● Regroup all transport options under a

same umbrella.

Intermodality as a solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iBStcQZoHU

MonTrajet

MonTrajet

MonTrajet

For Drivers

● Offer a ride● Search for passenger

For Passengers

● Search for a ride● Plan an intermodal trip

For Organisations

For Organisations

For Organisations

● The user validation can be done manually.

● Member organisations can have a custom autovalidation of users developed for them.

For Organisations

● This also adds the possibility to have a single sign-on with the extranet of each organisation.

Administration

Administration

● Statistics on the offers, rides and users● Search for users● Search for origin and destination● Export to CSV

Administration

● The platform can be used as a repartition tool.

● Staff users can create and propose matches between two users by email to stimulate traffic and activity on montrajet.ca.

Technologies

● Django● OpenLayers 3● Google Maps● pgRouting 2● OSM● PostGIS

Technologies: Application

● Django framework for user, data and form management.

● Django CMS for static pages.● Map with OpenLayers 3● Google Maps

Technologies: Routing

● Google Maps API to geocode● Google Maps for unimodal routing (car,

walking, biking and public transit when available)

● Custom routing engine for intermodal trip

Technologies: Intermodality

● pgRouting algorithm ● OSM data● Build a graph for each potential offers with

all POI and other possibilities.● Precalculate as much information as

possible.● Good performance (0.3s / request)

Technologies: Result ordering

● Filter out offers based on users criteria.● Weigh all results based of matching

criteria to determine their order.● Always try to give results to the user.● Make sure to inform the user if their

results are not really matching their request.

OSM

● A lot of work done to clean up the data in rural area.

● Addition of walking and biking lanes.● More than 600 modifications over the

summer.● Changes also published to Google Maps

Maker

OSM: CADUS

Current state

● Launch Beta on August 21st 2014● At the same time as the first day of school● Next version (Autumn 2014):

– Saguenay municipal public transit integration (GTFS)

– Finish responsive

– Support multiple email address

– SMS communication

Futur

● Possibility of loading any GTFS● Events as well as organisations● Translation

Want to use it?

CADUS is open to the idea of sharing the platform to other institution like it. Contact us to have more information if you are interested.

Questions?

Julien-Samuel Lacroix@juliensam