Abstract—We are facing regional problems to low birth rate and longevity in Japan. Under this situation, there are some local municipalities which lose their vitality. The aims of this study are to clarify the present state of local public transportation services in local municipalities and relation between local public transportation services and population quantitatively. We conducted a quest...

Real-time bus arrival information systems at transit stops can be useful to passengers for efficient trip planning and reducing waiting times. The accuracy of such systems depends upon the ability of the model to account for variations in the data series and to adjust according to changing traffic conditions. Many of the existing studies on passenger information systems have modeled the system ...

Transport stations such as airports, ports, and railways have adopted blocked-type pathway management to process and control travel systems in a one-directional manner. However, this excludes highway transportation where large buses have great variability and mobility; thus, an instant influx of numerous buses increases risks and complicates station management. Focusing on Taipei Bus Station, t...

Nowadays, transportation plays a very important role for students in the day to day life of the educational institutions, these institutes are mostly located out of cities. Need of monitoring the travel time and driver information are the major components of traveller information system in the institutions. The travel time of buses varies depending on some parameters such as Bus Drivers doesn't...

Abstract: The public transit system are essential services to the sustainability and livability of any city. Transit agencies are consistently trying to improve service reliability and attract passengers by applying various strategies. In this paper, we present an approach to mining the temporal behavior of the passengers in a public transportation system, which may help the transport operators...

ISSN 2277 5080 | © 2012 Bonfring Abstract— In recent decades, the number of vehicles in India has increased enormously, which results in rigorous traffic congestion and pollution in urban areas, especially during peak hours. This paper describes an implementation of Real Time Query System (RTQS) for public transportation service using ZigBee and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as a commun...

In this paper we present the requirements, design and pre-deployment testing of a transportation bus as a Mobile Enterprise Sensor Bus (M-ESB) service in China that supports two main requirements: to monitor the urban physical environment, and to monitor road conditions. Although, several such projects have been proposed previously, integrating both environment and road condition monitoring and...

urbanization development followed by increase in travel demand in recent years made some problems for cities such as traffic, lack of suitable parking, environmental issues, economic and social etc. meanwhile, public transport, especially bus services are very important in the development of urban functions thus, paying attention to different aspects of the transport in order to increase its ef...

In the area of optimization of public transportation there are several methods for modeling and solving vehicle and driver scheduling problems. We designed a sequential heuristic method for solving the combined (vehicle and driver scheduling) problem. Our model is based on a modification of the vehicle schedules to satisfy driver requirements. We introduced a driver friendly approach of the opt...