Singularity

An interactive interface for service planning in public transportation

The terminal displaying how many shifts got matched with the actual shifts the employee requested.

Service planning is hard

The Singularity project represents a visual interface for the shift planners and the bus drivers at the Stadtwerke Osnabrück. The point is to show how well or poorly the shifts are handed out. Every busdriving individual has the ability to wish for shifts and when they would like to take them, but the reality is often different. Planners try to incorporate all of the wishes but are sometimes unable to slot everyone in perfectly. In this visualisation all the shifts that match the wish and the ones that don't are being displayed. So at the end of the day everyone can see how well the planners could fit everyone in and if everyone got what they wanted.

This project was a group effort of Jannik Bussman, Linnea Helms, Carlos Niermeier and me and it was really inspiring to work on this together. Between building the actual case and frame and writing the code and designing the interface were many trial and errors. But in the end this project taught me many things and I am glad I was on the team.

If a personal RFID card is read, the employee can access their own data and compare it to the average of each individual.

A look inside the lasercut housing reveals a small pc, the RFID reader, IR sensor and 3D printed parts to hold it all in place.

Skills

teamwork
3D printing - Cura
prototyping - Blender
UI/UX design - Sketch/Illustrator

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