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Fair access to healthcare facilities is fundamental to achieving social equity. Traditional travel time-based accessibility measures often overlook the dynamic nature of travel times resulting from different departure times, which…

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Travel time is a fundamental component of accessibility measurement, yet most accessibility analyses rely on static timetable data that assume public transport services operate exactly as scheduled. Such representations overlook the…

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We present a scalable solution to link entities across mobility datasets using their spatio-temporal information. This is a fundamental problem in many applications such as linking user identities for security, understanding privacy…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Fuat Basık , Hakan Ferhatosmanoğlu , Buğra Gedik

We propose a methodology to assess transportation accessibility inequity in metropolitan areas. The methodology is based on the classic analysis tools of Lorenz curves and Gini indices, but the novelty resides in the fact that it can be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Amirhesam Badeanlou , Andrea Araldo , Marco Diana

In this study, we utilize data from over 28,000 public charging stations (PCSs) and 5.5 million points of interest across twenty U.S. metropolitan areas to underscore the importance of considering the availability of opportunities when…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-16 Hossein Gazmeh , Yuntao Guo , Xinwu Qian

This paper introduces a mobility equity metric (MEM) for evaluating fairness and accessibility in multi-modal intelligent transportation systems. The MEM simultaneously accounts for service accessibility and transportation costs across…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Heeseung Bang , Aditya Dave , Filippos N. Tzortzoglou , Shanting Wang , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The witnessed boom in mobility results in many problems such as urbanization, costly construction of many highways and air pollution. In an attempt to address these problems, in this master, we are interested in the implementation of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Sawsen Ben Nasr

With people constantly migrating to different urban areas, our mobility needs for work, services and leisure are transforming rapidly. The changing urban demographics pose several challenges for the efficient management of transit services.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-08 Trivik Verma , Mikhail Sirenko , Itto Kornecki , Scott Cunningham , Nuno AM Araújo

Access to reliable public transportation is essential for addressing socio-economic disparities, particularly in low-income communities that rely heavily on transit for accessing jobs, healthcare, and essential services. This study…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Sanaz Sadat Hosseini , Mona Azarbayjani , Jason Lawrence , Hamed Tabkhi

Transportation equity research has traditionally emphasized service accessibility and destination reachability while often overlooking the critical aspects of service quality, such as infrequent schedules or overcrowded vehicles. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Mengke , Ma , Zilin Bian , Jingqin Gao , Hai Yang , Joseph Chow , Kaan Ozbay

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 study evaluates the accessibility of public EV charging stations in the Washington metropolitan area using a comprehensive measure that accounts for both destination-based and en route charging opportunities. By incorporating the full…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-16 Asal Mehditabrizi , Behnam Tahmasbi , Saeed Saleh Namadi , Cinzia Cirillo

We are in the midst of a technology-driven transformation of the urban mobility landscape. However, unfortunately these new innovations are still dominated by car-centric personal mobility, which leads to concerns such as environmental…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Danushka Edirimanna , Hins Hu , Samitha Samaranayake

Cities are becoming very congested. There is a need to reduce the number of private cars on the roads, by maximising the potential for local public transport. With the increasing awareness of transport that is sustainable in the sense of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Bruno Cardoso , Miguel Ribeiro , Catia Prandi , Nuno Nunes

Ride-sharing may substantially contribute to future-compliant sustainable mobility, both in urban and rural areas. The service quality of ride-sharing fleets jointly depends on the topology of the underlying street networks, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-24 Nora Molkenthin , Malte Schröder , Marc Timme

Automatic detection of public transport (PT) usage has important applications for intelligent transport systems. It is crucial for understanding the commuting habits of passengers at large and over longer periods of time. It also enables…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Mikko Rinne , Mehrdad Bagheri , Tuukka Tolvanen

The importance of human mobility analyses is growing in both research and practice, especially as applications for urban planning and mobility rely on them. Aggregate statistics and visualizations play an essential role as building blocks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Alexandra Kapp , Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Helena Mihaljević , Florian Tschorsch

In mixed traffic scenarios, a certain number of pedestrians might coexist in a small area while interacting with vehicles. In this situation, every pedestrian must simultaneously react to the surrounding pedestrians and vehicles. Analytical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Dongfang Yang , Fatema T. Johora , Keith A. Redmill , Ümit Özgüner , Jörg P. Müller

This study proposes a new approach to assessing urban accessibility using the competitive equilibrium method, an adaptation of the balancing cost method that incorporates competition among users into dual accessibility metrics. The need for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-11 Andre Borgato Morelli , Andre Luiz Cunha

Time-sensitive parcel deliveries, shipments requested for delivery in a day or less, are an increasingly important research subject. It is challenging to deal with these deliveries from a carrier perspective since it entails additional…