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List of Public Transport Phone Application Use Cases

walles edited this page Sep 13, 2010 · 5 revisions

This is a list of public transport phone application use cases. It is the result of Johan Nilsson (of Android stlmtraveling fame) and Johan Walles (of Android SL fame) having a fika and discussing cooperation.

Use Cases

This list is roughly sorted in order of real-world usefulness.

Take me Home Now

  • Johan wants to go home from where he is currently.
  • This could be the most common use case.
  • Should require few clicks.
  • Should be able to show the way to the nearest station / bus stop, since it’s possible that Johan doesn’t know where he is.

Take me to Work

  • Johan wants to go to work, and just wants to know which train to take.
  • He probably starts at home every time for this trip, so a bookmark for the whole trip could work here.

Go Visit a Friend

  • Johan wants to go visit a friend.
  • He needs to be able to select his friend using the phone book.
  • Updating the phone book with actual addresses is not the responsibility of the traveling application, get something else for that.

Go to Stadshuset to

  • Johan wants to go to Stadshuset but doesn’t know its address. He can find it on a map though.
  • This requires Johan to be able to request a location from a map.

Go to some Specific Subway Stop

  • For some locations, SL provides quite bad suggestions when fed a coordinate. Going to or from a specific stop in SL’s database works around those issues.