Governments are increasingly making public transportation data available to the public on the Internet. The data can be used to explore and characterize current and historical service levels or to forecast operations in the immediate future. This paper considers, as an example, real-time bus location data provided by the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency. General techniques for making use ...

This paper proposes one approach for evaluating the efficiency of an urban transportation service in multi actors’ context and in multicriteria framework. A priori analysis is intended for clarifying options, by reducing uncertainty and, more generally, by providing information about the alternatives in their specific context. Firstly, a diagnosis phase based on hierarchical ascending classific...

Nowadays, most traditional industries are facing great challenges, and so is the traditional bus industry. To design or renew a route in a metropolis cost our government a considerable amount of money, and human resource as well. Effective as it might be when being put into use, an increasing volume of data is still being neglected. In our research, we apply multi-source data analysis technique...

Understanding the quality and usage of public transportation resources is important for schedule optimization and resource allocation. Ridership and adherence are two main dimensions for evaluating the quality of service [1, 5]. Using Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), Automatic Passenger Count (APC), and Global Positioning System (GPS) data, ridership data and adherence data of public transport...

This policy proposal will address the issue of public transportation as a means for sustainable development. Transportation is an issue that needs to be addressed because it has two deleterious effects on the environment. One is the effect of vehicle carbon dioxide, CO2, emissions on climate change and the second stems from other vehicle emissions that cause air pollution leading to negative he...

Mobile broadband Internet access is an important issue for next generation networks. Users not only want to access their broadband services and applications at home but also en-route. This is technically challenging especially in the transportation environment as it has to deal with high mobility and many customers. The “Broadband Wireless Internet Access in Public Transportation” (BIT) project...

We review some recent advances for solving core algorithmic problems encountered in public transportation systems. We show that efficient algorithms can make a great difference both in efficiency and in optimality, thus contributing significantly to improving the quality and service-efficiency of public transportation systems.

Given a public transportation system represented by its stops and direct connections between stops, we consider two problems dealing with the prices for the customers: The fare problem in which subsets of stops are already aggregated to zones and \good" tari s have to be found in the existing zone system. Closed form solutions for the fare problem are presented for three objective functions. In...