Predicting taxi–passenger demand using streaming data

L Moreira-Matias, J Gama, M Ferreira… - IEEE Transactions …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Informed driving is increasingly becoming a key feature for increasing the sustainability of
taxi companies. The sensors that are installed in each vehicle are providing new …

Time of day intervals partition for bus schedule using GPS data

Y Bie, X Gong, Z Liu - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2015 - Elsevier
Time of day partition of bus operating hours is a prerequisite of bus schedule design.
Reasonable partition plan is essential to improve the punctuality and level of service. In most …

A predictive model for the passenger demand on a taxi network

L Moreira-Matias, J Gama, M Ferreira… - … 15th International IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decade, the real-time vehicle location systems attracted everyone attention for the
new kind of rich spatio-temporal information. The fast processing of this large amount of …

Zest: a hybrid model on predicting passenger demand for chauffeured car service

H Wei, Y Wang, T Wo, Y Liu, J Xu - … of the 25th ACM International on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Chauffeured car service based on mobile applications like Uber or Didi suffers from supply-
demand disequilibrium, which can be alleviated by proper prediction on the distribution of …

Validating the coverage of bus schedules: A machine learning approach

J Mendes-Moreira, L Moreira-Matias, J Gama… - Information …, 2015 - Elsevier
Nowadays, every public transportation company uses Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL)
systems to track the services provided by each vehicle. Such information can be used to …

Identifying spatio-temporal patterns of bus bunching in urban networks

CA Iliopoulou, CP Milioti, EI Vlahogianni… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Time reliability measures in bus transport services from the accurate use of automatic vehicle location raw data

B Barabino, M Di Francesco… - Quality and Reliability …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Archived automatic vehicle location (AVL) data are widely used in bus transportation, but
typically contain anomalies, such as missing data points and unseen bus overtakings. These …

How long a passenger waits for a vacant taxi--large-scale taxi trace mining for smart cities

G Qi, G Pan, S Li, Z Wu, D Zhang… - … Conference on Green …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve smart cities, real-world trace data sensed from the GPS-enabled taxi system,
which conveys underlying dynamics of people movements, could be used to make urban …

The passenger demand prediction model on bus networks

C Zhou, P Dai, R Li - 2013 IEEE 13th international conference …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Public transport, especially the bus transport, can reduce the private car usage and fuel
consumption, and alleviate traffic congestion. However, when traveling with buses, the …

Bus bunching detection by mining sequences of headway deviations

L Moreira-Matias, C Ferreira, J Gama… - Advances in Data …, 2012 - Springer
In highly populated urban zones, it is common to notice headway deviations (HD) between
pairs of buses. When these events occur in a bus stop, they often cause bus bunching (BB) …