AirTransit Trip Planner Application

The number of flight on transit passenger in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) had been recorded almost 35 million of people in 2010. This passenger on transit will spend their time at the airport while waiting for the next flight without any planning to visit tourism places nearby due to short period of time and much information needed to plan a short trip. This is such a waste because they actually can boost countries’ economy in the tourism sector if they spend their time to visit some tourism places nearby the airport. Because of that, AirTransit Trip Planner aims to help these passenger on transit by planning a short trip to the nearby tourism places within the transition hour they have. AirTransit Trip Planner is using a mathematical algorithm in order to calculate and suggest how many nearby tourism places a user can visit based on their flight transition time. The algorithm also need to consider the distance of the tourism places from user’s current location and also time taken to go there. Besides the mathematical algorithm used for sorting, AirTransit Trip Planner also using Google Map API as a map to guide user and Google Places API as a data center to grab all the tourism places and its details. The output of this calculation is a suggestion of short trip planner for the user (passenger on transit). The trip planner will list down the tourism places user can visit within their flight transition hour, the distance to go there and also time taken to go there. Indirectly, this AirTransit Trip Planner application also helps to boost economy in the tourism sector of a country