Effective Communication

  Module Learning: At the beginning of the module I tasked myself to achieve the goal of becoming a better communicator and to effectively improve the usage of my words. Throughout this 13 week journey, I was able to learn and improve on my writing and communication skills especially with the guidance of Professor Brad. I feel that throughout this course I was able to effectively express myself and articulate my thoughts better. I was able to pick up skills that I had not learned and had almost no prior knowledge of such as technical writing, summarisation and citation skills. Prior to this effective communication class I lacked confidence and was able to improve my confidence through the pitches and presentations. I appreciated that Professor Brad gave us constant opportunities to try and learn from each other's mistakes through the peer reviews and pitches that we gave to our classmates. I also tried to learn more on the way others write their summaries and reports. During the le...

In the article “Preventing ‘Bus Bunching’ with Smart Phone Application Implementation”, Sprogis (n.d.) claims that implementing a smartphone application for bus drivers will help shorten waiting times and prevent overcrowding. Sprogis analyses the data of bus crowds using AnyLogic's GIS features to create a solution called "Equilibrium" based on the distance between buses. By doing so buses will make refined adjustments to the route by altering its speed and maintaining the ideal headway. Sprogis (n.d.) believes that this helps to make the number of riders in each bus more consistent and develop more predictable waiting times, eventually “eliminating excessively long waiting times and dampens overcrowding of buses”. While I support the idea of tackling issues on bus bunching using smartphones, other technological applications have also successfully resolved bus bunching. Firstly, the usage of a smartphone application to tackle bus bunching has been successfully tested. In...