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Abstract:
A Transportation System is the lifeline of any country. Life would come to a standstill without a proper and effectual transportation system be it Railways, Roadways or Airways. A Public Transport Information System seeks to provide people, especially the traveling community access to information, which would allow them to choose the optimal route and at the same time effectively manage time. Hence, the authors envisage a need for an Information System based on a GIS to provide information for the public who use the public transport system. A pilot project was undertaken for the same in Chennai City. The Public Transport chosen for the project was the MTC (Metropolitan Transport Corporation) bus transport system, which is the heavily used transport system in Chennai. During the course of the pilot project, it was found that the algorithm was the major hurdle and it has been implemented successfully in this pilot project. Thus, the algorithm forms the focus of this entire paper.