The proposed service would answer cost, time, and booking questions for local transport riders.
Information technology has already improved public transport in many cities, but Malang had little of it in 2017. Riders had no reliable way to find out which vehicle serves a route, how long the trip takes, or what it costs. Two researchers from Universitas Brawijaya responded with a design for a REST API that local transport services could expose.
The paper is a design proposal, and its main output is a list of capabilities the interface should carry.
The detailed record for each mode carries more than a name and a line on a map. The design calls for an index of comfortability, security, safety, privacy, availability, and accessibility. Those six values give an application something to compare and filter on, which is what turns a transport directory into a service that helps someone choose.
The authors frame the work as service-oriented architecture and expose it through REST, with the keywords listing web service design as the approach. Putting the data behind an interface means any developer can build a rider application on top of it, and the transport operator manages one source of truth.
It is worth being clear about the stage. The paper presents a draft proposal of the interface. It does not report a deployed service or a measured outcome, so the value here is the specification itself.
Agi Putra Kharisma and Aryo Pinandito (2017). Design of REST API for Local Public Transportation Information Services in Malang City. Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science.
