Automating Bus Stop Dwell Times Measurements using London’s iBus: Exploiting the Data from Vehicle Location Systems

Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems for buses have been deployed successfully in many cities to improve service operations and provide real-time passenger information. Increasingly these systems are being used to develop further applications, and this paper provides one example using London’s iBus, where events captured historically by vehicles operating on-street in real-time are used to derive automated bus stop dwell time measurements, which are comparable to the observations made on-board vehicles, and the values obtained previously through manual surveys. The method involves running complex algorithms to process large volumes of events log records taken from the small on-board computers of iBus-enabled vehicles, and using these to calculate the Speed Zero durations or stationary times of buses within the stop zone. This method may have similar application in other cities, and has the potential to replace relatively expensive manually surveys, and provide improved dwell time measurements for use in bus priority, for service scheduling, journey time planning and in public transport modelling.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Wong, Alan
  • Hounsell, Nick B
  • D’Souza, Chris
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle location; Dwell time; Quality of service; Real time information; Travel surveys; Travel time
• Identifier Terms: iBus (London, England)
• Geographic Terms: London (England)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01496452
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 14 2013 2:05PM