Toward Enabling Convenient Urban Transit through Mobile Crowdsensing

The smart cities of the future are expected to be serviced by advanced, personalized multimodal transit systems, charged with timely transport of citizens. Optimizing routes on such networks is a complex problem, in part due to the fact that simple metrics such as latency by themselves are not sufficient to find the best routes. In this paper, the authors focus on the problem of providing commuters with personalized routes with the most convenience. The authors present a mathematical model of user convenience during a multi-leg journey, and the overview of a middleware for enabling convenient transit (including ensuring acceptable network connectivity to mobile apps) by using crowdsourcing. The authors also report on initial insights obtained through empirical studies on network connectivity and user-perception of convenience in Delhi, India, and Paris, France.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2015.57
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  • Copyright © 2015, IEEE.
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• Authors:
  • Bajaj, Garvita
  • Bouloukakis, Georgios
  • Pathak, Animesh
  • Singh, Pushpendra
  • Georgantas, Nikolaos
  • Issarny, Valérie
• Conference:
  • 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
  • Location: Canary Islands , Spain
  • Date: 2015-9-15 to 2015-9-18
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 290-295
• Monograph Title: 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2015)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Choice models; Crowdsourcing; Mathematical models; Multimodal transportation; Public transit
• Geographic Terms: Delhi (India); Paris (France)
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01615184
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781467365956
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 2 2016 3:17PM