DETAIL OF PUBLIC SHOWER

After presentation, we recognized that the public shower informations are not very clear that others could not very understand our idea. 

The public shower would be built beside the train station and available in outdoor train station. Taking shower fee: commuters could use their EZ-link card for entrance the public shower facility, if commuters already travel the train could enter public shower for fee. 

For the entrance, it looks very familiar with toilet logo but if you see carefully, you could recognized that is not a same logo.  

There is a place for tapping EZ-link card in the entrance.

Like the public toilet, there have a big mirror and already all stuff for taking shower.

FINAL SOLUTION

Finally, we had chosen public shower facility for the best method. It sounds quite odd in Singapore but actually public shower is very popular in other countries. In this project, we inspire the Japan style public shower because with the crowed population of Singapore, the big bathtub would easier to let people take a bath or shower and no need to wait too long. Here is the public shower with Japan style that i searched on the internet.

Honestly, public shower is familiar for me or somebody who reads comic or cartoon of Japan. Therefore drawing public shower is not really difficult.

Since there might have some peoples do not like take shower in the bathtub so there also have some showers on the wall. 

DEVELOPMENT OF 5 IDEAS FROM 101 SOLUTIONS

From 101 solutions, my group have chosen some ideas to solve the unpleasant smell in trains. 

1. Door man in entrance of train station: This man will spray for you if you had a strong odor. 

2. Public shower : the reason causes people become smelly mostly is sweat so there has a public shower beside the train station.

3. Sliding window: with the sliding window, the trains will be able circulate with the air from outside.

4. Air fresheners: like putting air-con, the air-fresheners will be built aim to absorb and decrease the strong odor in the trains. 

5. Small holes on train's glass panel: this method would make the ventilation from inside of the trains. 

101 SOLUTIONS

101 solutions was not be able done with group mate because i was not at class that day so this mind-map was made by myself and it will be put in with solutions of my group member. Anyway, thinking for 101 solutions is not easy but i did draw down every possible method.

CASE STUDY - SECONDARY RESEARCH

Research Methodologies:
For this research, there are some trains that we inspire, is Virgin train of UK, Path of US, and Rapid train.
Virgin train is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Group and Stagecoach that has operated the InterCity West Coast franchise since 9 March 1997. Although Virgin Trains is set to spend £3.5 million on a project to refresh the entire fleet of locomotives in an attempt to get rid of the lavatories smell lingering around the train but there are still number of commuters think it is not work in solving bad smell problem because of toilet in train.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_trains

PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) is a rapid transit railroad serving New Jersey and New York. It is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Due to operating hour daily is 24 hours, commuters often smell strong unpleasant odor in the train even they can taste it over their tongue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_train

OBSERVATION

Observation
Smelly people mostly do not know they have an unpleasant smell but people around them do. Perhaps they got use to their smell already. Here are some cases that can find recently in train.
Tobacco case: uncle A smoke as usual, his body has an unpleasant odor and he did get use to this smell for a long time. When he gets in the train, this smell is not very strong but still can make people around him uncomfortable because of his breath. His look does not messy but because of smoking more than 20 years, his tooth look not so clean. Since nowadays the busy life takes people easily to get stress so smoking in young age case increases little by little. Objects of smoking is not only adult, there are too young girls in nice dressing also have tobacco odor.

To solve this problem, people should know the consequence of the smoking may make people be the victim of cancer.
Make-up : Mrs. B, make up and use perfume everyday. Due to strong perfume so when she gets in the train, the smell spread that made someone sneezed. She looks quite nice and cleanliness but perhaps she does not know that she is one of the reasons make the train smelly. This case have seen very usual becase keeping a good look is very important in work in nowadays. 

To solve this problem, the very strong perfume should not be allow sell in the market. By the ways, shoppers should let people know how to use perfume in right ways. 

Place without wind : Mr. C, worker, because offent work in the hot place so getting sweat frequently. When he gets in the train, even though he did change the clother before but he still had an body odor. He looks nothing wrong, because of tired after work, he just keep quiet till the train takes him to his destination or call someone to chat when the train running. 

To solve this problem, goverment should have a break place and fan for each team worker if they work in hot place (e.g place in the sun, street, underground, room of building, etc)

SURVEY RESULT

Online survey

In this week, i would like to show the result of our survey. There are 54 people did the survey totally and most of them have strong agree with us ideas. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HBHZBZB

This result shows that the problem of traveling with SMRT train is too crowded in peak hour the most, therefore they had to face with unwanted situations. To solve the problem, first at all we should know what the commuters thinking, and what they most want to if it could change.