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Over the past few years, the on-demand transport services (e.g., Uber) have witnessed an unprecedented popularity due to its easy-to-adopt model (i.e., a passenger orders a taxi, a request is sent to all drivers in the vicinity, drivers accept/reject the order). Nonetheless, such a service is affected directly by multiple urban factors such as traffic, number of existing drivers en-route, and local weather which may cause a huge delay. Dial-A-Ride Problem with Transfers (DARPT) allows passengers to change vehicles during their trip in a bid to minimize the delay. However, DARPT relies solely on using the existing Global Positioning System (GPS) that suffers from delay in propagating raw traffic data (e.g., route coordinates, geodesic distance, and time stamp) on time and ultimately causes traffic disruption and increases ride time constraint. To this end, this work introduces a novel interactive Fog-based navigation …