Patent ID: 7928864

Claim:
A method for encoding transportation information, the method performed by an apparatus having a controller, comprising: creating information on a bus route, on a current location of each bus in service on the bus route and an availability of each bus in service on the bus route; automatically organizing status information with at least the created information to be transmitted via a sequence of messages and automatically updating the status information, wherein the created information is classified into route-based information and bus-stop-based bus service information, wherein the status information incorporates the route-based information and bus-stop-based bus service information, and wherein different components of the sequence of messages in a Bus Service Information (BSI) container carry the route-based information and the bus-stop-based bus service information; and transmitting the sequence of messages containing the status information, wherein the created information includes information on a station available for transfer or a bus stop available for transfer that is based on both the route-based information and the bus-stop-based bus service information.