Development of Navigation System for Sightseeing Wandering: Transit from Tram to Walking in downtown Nagasaki

摘要

Nagasaki LRT Navigation Promotion Council provides the Service named DOKONE. It is a system that distributes the position information of the low-floor vehicle operated by Nagasaki Electric Tramway to the mobile terminal. This system detects tram and user's positions by using GPS, and transmits data via mobile network (3G or LTE). Users can determine the position of the tram by the map displayed on the screen of the mobile phone. In addition, they can reserve getting on from a specific stop. This service started in October, 2011, and reached 40,000 by the number of accesses in one year. Our Promotion Council is composed by the university, private companies, and local governments (City and Prefecture). We developed a new navigation system for sightseeing that used Ucode and the NFC tag based on DOKONE in 2012. This article reports on the process of the evolution of the navigator.