The Design Of Augmented Reality Using Unity 3d Image Marker Detection For Smart Bus Transportation

Abstract

Public bus transportation has become an integral part of society which the disruption of bus services is one of the major concerns. This research presents a development of smart bus transportation using augmented reality (TRANSPAR) on a mobile application. One of the issues with public transportation is real-time responsiveness. Most bus schedules have presented online but customers still faced many failures. Some bus schedules are not updated when changes happened over time. Some existing bus schedules system are fixed to the bus stations. The research objective is to design an Augmented Reality application based on identified characteristics by using Unity 3D image marker detection on a mobile Android platform. The TRANSPAR is developed by using Vuforia and Google Firebase for acquiring the bus timetables. The phone camera AR and normal image scanners were designed. Google Firebase Database is used to retrieve and store each timetable data for every bus station. The research has successfully developed a prototype of AR mobile applications. An analysis of interactivity and benefits of TRANSPAR has shown that 90% agreed on the use of AR and more than 76% has agreed on its functionality based on 50 taken samples. This shows a positive impact on the designed TRANSPAR. The research is significant to encourage the public with a new technological application for public transportation that impacts society