Multimodal Information Screen – Towards an Awareness Raising for the Use of Public Transport

The intention of our Multimodal Information Screen is to promote public transport and to visualize healthy alternatives to motorized individual transport. This paper describes the development of a new traffic information screen which is designed to make public transport more accessible by displaying real-time traffic data on frequently viewed screens. The first prototype of our application was developed for the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. After further developments, it has become highly customizable and can be provided for any location within Vienna. Apart from the available public transport connections in the immediate vicinity and their departures in minutes, the display includes a map of the surroundings, the amount of free city bikes of the next stations, as well as current weather information. Our smart mobility application uses real-time data and a variety of Open Data provided by the City of Vienna and aims to raise awareness of alternative modes of transport