Busy bus routes often suffer from buses not arriving at regular intervals but in bunches at bus
stops. In this paper we study this bus bunching phenomenon and address it by a …

Portable digital devices equipped with GPS antennas are ubiquitous sources of continuous
information for location-based Expert and Intelligent Systems. The availability of these traces …

Bus bunching severely deteriorates the quality of transit service with poor on-time
performance and excessive waiting time. To mitigate bus bunching, this paper presents a …

Recent advances in telecommunications created new opportunities for monitoring public
transport operations in real-time. This paper presents an automatic control framework to …

Recently, cutting edge technologies to facilitate data collection have emerged on a large
scale. One of the most prominent is the in-vehicle data recorder (IVDR). There are multiple …

Efficient operation of bus networks is vital for urban centers. Unfortunately, factors such as
uneven passenger loads and congestion hinder the adherence to posted schedules …

If transit agencies wish to retain and attract riders, they need to provide reliable and efficient
services. Transit agencies tend to run high-frequency bus routes during peak hours, and in …

The objective of this paper is to identify hot spots of bus bunching events at the network
level, both in time and space, using Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) data from the Athens …

The prediction of the destination location at the time of pickup is an important problem with
potential for substantial impact on the efficiency of a GPS-enabled taxi service. While this …

Ubiquitous computing has changed the acquisition of mobility data, with two aspects
contributing: the high penetration rate and the ability to capture and share information on a …