Code for the group project for COMP47360 - Research Practicum
This project contains the code of a web application for Dublin Bus that aims to provide more accurate travel time estimates than those provided by static timetables. We describe how we innovate beyond the project specification by also estimating and presenting the uncertainty around these time estimates in a novel way and by providing extensive user authentication and customisation options. The uncertainty estimates are based on a Neural Network model but we find that this model does not outperform simpler benchmark models on average, although there is significant variation in model accuracy across the bus network. Our survey results also show that while users often prefer time ranges to single point estimates, they struggle to interpret and find value in more complex uncertainty visualisations.
The report details the application, development and testing process and results, major contributions of each team member, weaknesses of the application, and future work.
To run the project locally you need to follow the steps described in the README.md files inside each folder:
