A method for prevention of missing a target vehicle by using a vehicle timetable with fiction of vehicle departure time intervals

Although it is socially and ethically important not to be late for a determined arrival time, a late arrival sometimes happens against a person's will in using public transportation. However, to prevent late arrivals, there are few approaches that focus on late arrivals caused by user's psychological factors despite the fact that these factors are related to users in transit. In this research, to prevent users from late arrival for target vehicle's departure time, we propose a method for presenting a vehicle timetable mixed with fictional information in consideration of psychological tendency. Our method manipulates the time interval of a vehicle's departure between a user's target vehicle and other vehicles by introducing fictional elements such as by hiding vehicles. We implemented our proposed system. Evaluation results confirmed that our proposed method is effective for changing user's advance planning toward desired direction to prevent late arrivals