Rural Intelligent Public Transportation System Design

Transportation Systems ◽

Trip Planning ◽

Transportation Management ◽

Transportation Services ◽

User Centric ◽

Intercity Transportation

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers and other institutions with other services such as trip planning, tracking and so forth. In this paper the authors have attempted to present a comprehensive design of rural ITS based on cloud and grid computing, RFID, GPS, GIS, etc. through e-commerce and particularly m-commerce in order to improve the rural transportation management and presentation of user-centric services. Also according to the design, intercity transportation services to passengers are re-engineered. The results show proposed design with distribution infrastructure improves the performance of e-commerce and ISs in transportation domain. The system designed on this paper regardless of the possible challenges could efficiently cover the problems of rural transportation of newly developing countries.

Rural Intelligent Public Transportation System Design

International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach ◽

10.4018/ijitsa.2015010101 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 1-27 ◽

Author(s):

Leila Esmaeili ◽

Seyyed AliReza Hashemi G.

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Intelligent Transportation ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Trip Planning ◽

Transportation Management ◽

Transportation Services ◽

Intercity Transportation

Planning Innovative Public Transportation Systems for Arlington, Texas

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.1177/0361198196152100103 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 1521 (1) ◽

pp. 20-28

Author(s):

David A. Faria ◽

Wilma Smith

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

General Will ◽

Transportation Services ◽

The Public ◽

Niche Concept ◽

The Individual ◽

Alternative Community ◽

The City

A study was done to develop various innovative transportation strategies to address the changing travel needs of Arlington, Texas, residents. The study was guided by the Arlington Community Transportation Study Committee. It developed the transportation niche concept: the ability to use alternative community transportation services to address specific needs of the community in different parts of the city. Five high-priority niches were studied in detail. The success of the individual niches in particular and the integrated transportation system in general will rely heavily on the cooperation and coordination between the public and the private sectors and the acceptance of the niche concept by the general public.

Internet-Based Decision Support for Advanced Public Transportation Systems Technology

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.3141/1731-08 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 1731 (1) ◽

pp. 63-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

John R. Stone ◽

Tahsina Ahmed ◽

Anna Nalevanko

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Fleet Size ◽

Transportation Service ◽

Decision Making Factors ◽

Urban And Rural Areas ◽

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have the potential to improve public transportation service and productivity in small urban and rural areas. Advanced technologies include computer-aided dispatch and scheduling software, automatic vehicle location via satellite, mobile data terminals, smart cards, and Internet technologies. Transit operators, especially those with smaller systems, may feel, however, that they lack the experience and technical background to implement ITS technologies. An extensive website is discussed that will help transit managers define their transit needs and choose potential technology solutions. The website is based on contemporary decision-support questionnaires and the experience of transit managers and researchers. Decision-making factors such as transit service area, service type, daily ridership, and fleet size provide a framework for matching appropriate technologies to transit-manager needs. Further, the website provides extensive tutorial information, technology specifications and costs, and vendor contacts. Perhaps most important, the website identifies small urban and rural transit managers who have been pioneers in ITS applications, summarizing their successes and failures. The website address is http://www2.ncsu.edu/eos/service/ce/research/stone_res/tahmed_res/www/index.html.

Towards a Better Understanding of Public Transportation Traffic: A Case Study of the Washington, DC Metro

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci2030065 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 65 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert Truong ◽

Olga Gkountouna ◽

Dieter Pfoser ◽

Andreas Züfle

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Human Mobility ◽

Principal Component ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Traffic Prediction ◽

Washington Dc ◽

Trip Planning ◽

Latent Features ◽

Passenger Volume ◽

The problem of traffic prediction is paramount in a plethora of applications, ranging from individual trip planning to urban planning. Existing work mainly focuses on traffic prediction on road networks. Yet, public transportation contributes a significant portion to overall human mobility and passenger volume. For example, the Washington, DC metro has on average 600,000 passengers on a weekday. In this work, we address the problem of modeling, classifying and predicting such passenger volume in public transportation systems. We study the case of the Washington, DC metro exploring fare card data, and specifically passenger in- and outflow at stations. To reduce dimensionality of the data, we apply principal component analysis to extract latent features for different stations and for different calendar days. Our unsupervised clustering results demonstrate that these latent features are highly discriminative. They allow us to derive different station types (residential, commercial, and mixed) and to effectively classify and identify the passenger flow of “unknown” stations. Finally, we also show that this classification can be applied to predict the passenger volume at stations. By learning latent features of stations for some time, we are able to predict the flow for the following hours. Extensive experimentation using a baseline neural network and two naïve periodicity approaches shows the considerable accuracy improvement when using the latent feature based approach.

Effects of Free-Floating Shared Bicycles on Urban Public Transportation

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi8080323 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 323 ◽

Author(s):

Cao ◽

Ma ◽

Huang ◽

Lü ◽

Chen

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Sharing Economy ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Problem Model ◽

Last Mile ◽

Service Areas ◽

Shared Bicycle ◽

The City

As a product of the development of the Internet and the sharing economy, shared bicycles are beneficial in solving the last mile problem of public transportation for urban residents and expanding the service area of urban public transportation to a certain extent. This paper analyses the spatial-temporal characteristics of shared bicycles in the city of Beijing by using kernel density estimation and statistical analysis methods. The maximum coverage location problem model is used to quantify the effects of shared bicycles on the subway and bus urban public transportation systems. The analysis results are of great importance to identify the effects of shared bicycle usage on an urban bus public transportation system from the view of space-time. The results show that (1) shared bicycles are largely located within 1.5 km from the subway station and 500 meters from the bus stations; (2) the number of the shared bicycle usage changes along with the distance from the subway and bus stations; (3) subway and bus stations are divided into six types based on the sink-source characteristics of shared bicycles; (4) the service areas of subway and bus stations are expanded by approximately 2.34 and 1.33 times, respectively, after the implementation of shared bicycles.

Seamless Connectivity System for Intelligent Public Transportation Systems: Architecture and Mechanism Design

Journal of Communications Software and Systems ◽

10.24138/jcomss.v10i3.125 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 195 ◽

Author(s):

Zsuzsanna Ilona Kiss

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Experimental Tests ◽

Future Internet ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Architecture Design ◽

Systems Architecture ◽

Distributed Information ◽

Fast Development ◽

Providing ubiquitous connectivity to the passengers of public transportation vehicles is an important goal of thecommunication system designers in the context of fast development of the intelligent transportation systems and of the Future Internet communication technologies. This paper proposes the architecture of a connectivity system for public transportation communication services, the architecture design being considered on three distinct levels: system, functional and platform level. Theproposed system architecture specifies a minimal set of entities required to implement the envisaged connectivity solution and based on a functional analysis the subsystems and modules are derived. By mapping the functional architecture on the hardware components intended to be used the platform architecture is developed. The paper proposes also the design of the mechanisms which implement the inter-process communications, performthe acquisition and handling of the context information andimplement a distributed information system characterizing the heterogeneous networking environment. For other mechanisms, like decision and mobility management, the design principles are described. In order to validate the proposed architecture design and to check the correct functioning of the various subsystems and modules a few experimental tests are presented.

Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies ◽

Creating Smart Cities with Intelligent Transportation Solutions

10.4018/978-1-61350-453-6.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 174-190 ◽

Author(s):

Leo Tan Wee Hin ◽

R. Subramaniam

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Electronic Monitoring ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Intelligent Transportation ◽

Transportation System ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Signaling Systems ◽

City State

Transportation is often the bane of urban societies. Traffic gridlocks and inadequate availability of a comprehensive and affordable public transportation system further accentuate the problem. This chapter focuses on the Singapore experience with intelligent transportation solutions to alleviate a range of problems, thus contributing to its positioning as a smart city. We focus on seven issues: public transportation using modern mass rapid transit trains; congestion control using electronic road pricing; electronic monitoring advisory systems to guide road users on adverse conditions or incidents on roads; computerized traffic signaling systems to streamline the throughput of vehicles in roadways; intelligent dispatch of taxis, which helps to minimize idle cruising time; parking guidance systems to alert motorists of the nearest car park, in the process decreasing the level of floating traffic on roads; and integrated ticketing systems to promote inter-modal transfer. A unique funding mechanism that has led to the evolution of a modern and efficient public transportation system is also elaborated. Being a city state and a living laboratory of intelligent transportation systems that have attracted international attention, it is suggested that there are some lessons to be drawn from the Singapore experience in managing transportation problems in smart cities.

The strategy of sustainable public transportation system in the city of Rzeszów in the frame of Eastern Poland 2014-2020 Operational Programme

AUTOBUSY – Technika Eksploatacja Systemy Transportowe ◽

10.24136/atest.2017.024 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 18 (6) ◽

pp. 32-35

Author(s):

Anna Pająk ◽

Artur Orzeł ◽

Róża Stepaniuk

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Transportation System ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Broad Perspective ◽

Investment Projects ◽

Financial Perspective ◽

Complex Projects ◽

The City

In the frame of Action 2.1. “Sustainable public transportation” of the II Priority Axis of the Eastern Poland 2014-2020 Operational Programme five viovodeships submitted 14 applications of investment projects of the total value of 2,1 billion PLN. The main aim of the Programme is to support complex projects of ecological integrated public transportation systems in the broad perspective of sustainable development. Three applications were submitted by the City of Rzeszów. The main aims of the projects are: the development of Intelligent Public Transportation System in Rzeszów, creation of the Communication Centre in Rzeszów as well as bus fleet modernization. The article refers to the characteristics of the projects in the context of current financial perspective of Eastern Poland Operational Programme.

From Rural Single-County to Multicounty Regional Transit Systems: Benefits of Consolidation

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.3141/1841-06 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 1841 (1) ◽

pp. 54-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Thomas J. Cook ◽

Judson J. Lawrie ◽

Andrew J. Henry

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

The State ◽

Transit Systems ◽

Transportation Services ◽

State And Local ◽

Legislative Changes ◽

A research study developed recommendations for activities to consolidate single-county rural public transportation systems into regional multicounty transit systems in North Carolina. The study identified opportunities from regionalization of public transit services, examined barriers to integration and consolidation of transit systems regionally, evaluated best practices from case study sites, and made recommendations for programmatic and legislative changes to facilitate the implementation of regional transit systems in both metropolitan and rural areas of the state. Emphasis is on the rural component of the study, in summarizing regionalization issues and recommendations for the consolidation of rural single-county into multicounty transit systems. Consolidation of rural public transportation systems into regional entities is another step in further coordinating public transportation services in the state. However, there is a public transportation system now operating in all 100 North Carolina counties. Therefore, the thrust of regionalization will be to consolidate existing rural transportation systems into regional entities. There are key programmatic and legislative aspects of interest to state departments of transportation, transportation planners, and policymakers. Case studies also gathered information from associated state department of transportation staff, to include both the state and local perspectives on regional rural transportation systems.

The UbiBus Project: Using Context and Ubiquitous Computing to build Advanced Public Transportation Systems to Support Bus Passengers

10.5753/sbsi.2012.14435 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Vaninha Vieira ◽

Ana Carolina Salgado ◽

Patricia Tedesco ◽

Valeria Times ◽

Carlos Ferraz ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Ubiquitous Computing ◽

Real Time ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Time Factors ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Real Time Information

Urban mobility is a problem that affects all cities. Providing real time information that can assist citizens on planning their trips by choosing times and itineraries more appropriate to their needs are essential on smart cities. Our project, named UbiBus, investigates how Computational Context and Ubiquitous Computing can be applied to Intelligent Transportation Systems to aid bus passengers mobility on cities, since dynamic real-time factors can affect transportation means. This paper describes the overall ideas concerning the UbiBus Project and presents some of the applications under development with their preliminary results.