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Suppose $A$ and $B$ are two stations within the mass rapid transit network of a city. Both stations see approximately the same average daily number of passengers entering and exiting their gates. However, passengers are evenly distributed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-05 Carmen Cabrera-Arnau , Liang Wei Ng , Howard Wong , Chen Zhong

Stop location detection, within human mobility studies, has an impacts in multiple fields including urban planning, transport network design, epidemiological modeling, and socio-economic segregation analysis. However, it remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Margherita Bertè , Rashid Ibrahimli , Lars Koopmans , Pablo Valgañón , Nicola Zomer , Davide Colombi

"An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it's where even the rich use public transportation". This is what Enrique Penalosa, the celebrated ex-mayor of Bogota once said. However, in order to achieve this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-11 Tianfang Ma , Robizon Khubulashvili , Sera Linardi , Konstantinos Pelechrinis

Crowd-sourced traffic data offer great promise in environmental modeling. However, archives of such traffic data are typically not made available for research; instead, the data must be acquired in real time. The objective of this paper is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Markus Hilpert , Jenni A. Shearston , Jemaleddin Cole , Steven N. Chillrud , Micaela E. Martinez

A traffic performance measurement system, PeMS, currently functions as a statewide repository for traffic data gathered by thousands of automatic sensors. It has integrated data collection, processing and communications infrastructure with…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-12-18 Peter J. Bickel , Chao Chen , Jaimyoung Kwon , John Rice , Erik van Zwet , Pravin Varaiya

A new area in which passive WiFi analytics have promise for delivering value is the real-time monitoring of public transport systems. One example is determining the true (as opposed to the published) timetable of a public transport system…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Baoyang Song , Laura Wynter

Developing countries suffer from traffic congestion, poorly planned road/rail networks, and lack of access to public transportation facilities. This context results in an increase in fuel consumption, pollution level, monetary losses,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Ali AbdelAziz , Amin Shoukry , Walid Gomaa , Moustafa Youssef

This paper presents the Zurich Transit Bus (ZTBus) dataset, which consists of data recorded during driving missions of electric city buses in Zurich, Switzerland. The data was collected over several years on two trolley buses as part of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Fabio Widmer , Andreas Ritter , Christopher H. Onder

Urban rail services are the principal means of public transportation in many cities. To understand the crowding patterns and develop efficient operation strategies in the system, obtaining path choices is important. This paper proposed an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Baichuan Mo , Zhenliang Ma , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Jinhua Zhao

The role of spatial data in tackling city-related tasks has been growing in recent years. To use them in machine learning models, it is often necessary to transform them into a vector representation, which has led to the development in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Piotr Gramacki

Big mobility datasets (BMD) have shown many advantages in studying human mobility and evaluating the performance of transportation systems. However, the quality of BMD remains poorly understood. This study evaluates biases in BMD and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-23 Feilong Wang , Xuegang Ban , Peng Chen , Chenxi Liu , Rong Zhao

Crowdsourced GPS probe data has become a major source of real-time traffic information applications. In addition to traditional traveler advisory systems such as dynamic message signs (DMS) and 511 systems, probe data is being used for…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-02 Zhongxiang Wang , Masoud Hamedi , Elham Sharifi , Stanley Young

The potential of integrating public transit with ridesharing includes shorter travel time for commuters and higher occupancy rate of personal vehicles and public transit ridership. In this paper, we describe a centralized transit system…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang

This article proposes a method to quantitatively measure the resilience of transportation systems using GPS data from taxis. The granularity of the GPS data necessary for this analysis is relatively coarse; it only requires coordinates for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-11 Brian Donovan , Daniel B. Work

Methods for interactive evaluation of the functioning efficiency of the motor transport system for a large city based on the use of U-statistics methods has been formalized. To optimize this technique, effective algorithmic constructions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-02 O. D. Polishchuk , M. S. Yadzhak

Preventing traffic congestion by forecasting near time traffic flows is an important problem as it leads to effective use of transport resources. Social network provides information about activities of humans and social events. Thus, with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Deepika Pathania , Kamalakar Karlapalem

Understanding how people move in the urban area is important for solving urbanization issues, such as traffic management, urban planning, epidemic control, and communication network improvement. Leveraging recent availability of large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Chau Yuen , Bige Tunçer , Erik Wilhelm

In today's rapidly expanding digital landscape, where access to timely online content is paramount to users, the underlying network infrastructure and latency performance significantly influence the user experience. We present an empirical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Aakriti Kedia , Akhilan Ganesh , Aman Aggarwal

Accurate, scalable traffic monitoring is critical for real-time and long-term transportation management, particularly during disruptions such as natural disasters, large construction projects, or major policy changes like New York City's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Fan Zuo , Donglin Zhou , Jingqin Gao , Kaan Ozbay

This research provides a novel framework to estimate the economic, environmental, and social values of electrifying public transit buses, for cities across the world, based on open-source data. Electric buses are a compelling candidate to…