Mass transportation service delivery platform

A location tracking apparatus for providing location information for a mobile device associated with a passenger of a mass transportation vehicle, the location tracking apparatus comprising:

• a network interface for communicating with one or more mobile signal detection units;
• a data storage component for storing computer executable instructions;
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• a processing unit for executing the computer executable instructions to detect the presence of the mobile device in a mass transportation facility using data received from the mobile signal detection units, to communicate with a data processing system associated with a mass transportation service provider to automatically check in the passenger in response to a determination that the passenger is in the departing mass transportation facility based on detecting the presence of the mobile device of the user being in the departing mass transportation facility, to communicate with the data processing system to update a flight manifest with a location of the passenger within the departing mass transportation facility to indicate an amount of time before the passenger reaches a departing gate for the mass transportation vehicle, and to transmit a check-in confirmation message to the mobile device, in response to automatically checking in the passenger, the confirmation message including a scannable bar code that is utilized to board the mass transportation vehicle.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code comprising instructions to:

• monitor for the presence of a mobile device of a passenger in a mass transportation facility using one or more mobile signal detection units;
• responsive to identifying that the mobile device is located in the mass transportation facility, communicate with a data processing system associated with a mass transportation service provider to automatically check in the passenger;
• communicate with the data processing system to update a flight manifest with a location of the passenger within the departing mass transportation facility to indicate an amount of time before the passenger reaches a departing gate for the mass transportation vehicle;
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• transmit a check-in confirmation message to the mobile device, in response to automatically checking in the passenger, the confirmation message including a scannable bar code that is utilized to board the mass transportation vehicle.