Bus Passenger Origin-Destination Estimation and Related Analyses Using Automated Data Collection Systems

This research explores the application of archived data from Automated Data Collection Systems (ADCS) to transport planning with a focus on bus passenger travel behavior, including Origin-Destination (OD) inference, using London as a case study. It demonstrates the feasibility and ease of applying trip-chaining to infer bus passenger OD from smart card transactions and Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) data and is the first known attempt to validate the results by comparing them with manual passenger survey data. With the inferred OD matrices, the variations of weekday and weekend bus route OD patterns are examined for planning purposes. Moreover, based on the inferred OD matrices and the AVL data, alighting times for bus passengers also can be estimated. Bus journey stages, therefore, can easily be linked. By comparing the interchange time and the connecting bus route’s headway, it provides a way to evaluate bus connections.

• Record URL:
  • http://doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.14.4.7
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/30755822
• Authors:
  • Wang, Wei
  • Attanucci, John P
  • Wilson, Nigel H M
• Publication Date: 2011-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 131-150
• Serial:
  • Journal of Public Transportation
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: University of South Florida, Tampa
  • ISSN: 1077-291X
  • EISSN: 2375-0901
  • Serial URL: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jpt/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Automatic vehicle location; Boarding and alighting; Bus lines; Databases; Origin and destination; Smart cards; Transit riders; Travel behavior; Travel surveys
• Identifier Terms: Transport for London
• Geographic Terms: Greater London
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01361343
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 25 2012 2:23PM