WiFi Scanner Technologies for Obtaining Travel Data about Circulator Bus Passengers: Case Study in Obuse, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Recently, a variety of technologies, such as the development of Bluetooth, WiFi, and smart cards, have been used to investigate the movements of passengers or vehicles. This study describes the use of a WiFi scanner that was installed on a bus and circulated around the bus’s route 14 times. The method presented here involves the use of WiFi and GPS to analyze passengers’ movements while the bus is running and while stopped at a bus stop. Nine steps were used to derive travel data from the raw data to estimate the number of movements of the passengers. The results of this study describe the travel data collected between bus stops no. 1 and no. 9 and compare the observer data with the WiFi data.

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Authors:
- Hidayat, Arief
- Terabe, Shintaro
- Yaginuma, Hideki
Publication Date: 2018-12

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Print
Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 45-54
Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Volume: 2672
- Issue Number: 45
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0361-1981
- EISSN: 2169-4052
- Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/trr

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Bus stops; Bus travel; Case studies; Global Positioning System; Passenger counting; Passenger traffic measurement; Scanners; Traffic data; Travel behavior; Travel patterns
Identifier Terms: WiFi services
Geographic Terms: Nagano (Japan)
Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01657469
Record Type: Publication
Report/Paper Numbers: 18-01015
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 24 2018 9:24AM