Automatic creating database of public transport connections

Abstract

The Integrated Portal of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic provides the unemployed the possibility to find appropriate vacancy according to various criteria. The possibility of public transport connection existence between municipality of residence and municipality of potential vacancy is one of many various criteria of searching. Data for this option are guaranteed by VSB-TU of Ostrava. Valid time tables are used as information source of public transport connection existence and manual or automatical processing can be used for data mining. Due to the fact, that about 13.5 million of connections are calculated, it has to be used automatical processing. This paper describes the software solution, where the whole process is automatically distributed to many powerful workstations for parallel processing of all public transport connection combinations.