Estimating Bus Loads and OD Flows Using Location-Stamped Farebox and Wi-Fi Signal Data
| Autor: | Yuxiong Ji, Jizhou Zhao, Zhiming Zhang, Yuchuan Du |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Advanced Transportation, Vol 2017 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0197-6729 2042-3195 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2017/6374858 |
| Popis: | Electronic fareboxes integrated with Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems can provide location-stamped records to infer passenger boarding at individual stops. However, bus loads and Origin-Destination (OD) flows, which are useful for route planning, design, and real-time controls, cannot be derived directly from farebox data. Recently, Wi-Fi sensors have been used to collect passenger OD flow information. But the data are insufficient to capture the variation of passenger demand across bus trips. In this study, we propose a hierarchical Bayesian model to estimate trip-level OD flow matrices and a period-level OD flow matrix using sampled OD flow data collected by Wi-Fi sensors and boarding data provided by fareboxes. Bus loads on each bus trip are derived directly from the estimated trip-level OD flow matrices. The proposed method is evaluated empirically on an operational bus route and the results demonstrate that it provides good and detailed transit route-level passenger demand information by combining farebox and Wi-Fi signal data. |
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