An Estimation-based Automatic Vehicle Location System for Public Transport Vehicles

Public transport vehicles often share a road network with other road users making their journeys susceptible to changing road conditions and especially to congestion. Travelers using such public transport increasingly depend on real-time information to plan their journeys. While such information can be provided by Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems, AVLs depend heavily on large-scale deployment of designated sensory equipment, which may prevent their pervasive adoption. This paper presents a system for estimating vehicle location based on information generated by data sources typically integrated within existing ITS platforms. This enables location estimation for public transport vehicles without the need for deploying a designated sensor infrastructure in each vehicle, thereby reducing deployment and maintenance costs significantly. A prototypical vehicle location estimation system has been realized as part of and using data provided by the iTransIT ITS framework. Initial evaluation results show that such a system is feasible in a distributed manner and that estimated results are within 20% compared to empirical data.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2008.4732654
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission of IEEE.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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• Authors:
  • Morenz, Tino
  • Meier, René
• Conference:
  • 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2008)
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2008-10-12 to 2008-10-15
• Publication Date: 2008-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 850-856
• Monograph Title: 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2008)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle location; Intelligent transportation systems; Public passenger vehicles; Traffic data; Traffic estimation
• Geographic Terms: Dublin (Ireland)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01577382
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781424421114
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 2015 2:47PM