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Title:

Energy-Efficient Framework for Indoor and Outdoor Tracking of Public Transit Passengers Using Bluetooth-Enabled Devices

Accession Number:

01519812

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The quality and availability of a data collection system are essential for a high-quality planning and operations phases of Public transit (PT) systems. Passengers' demand (both spatial and temporal) is a key component in those phases. Unfortunately, acquiring passenger demand is a complex and time-consuming process. Various information technologies are used by PT operators to assist in the planning and operations phases. The main systems being used are Automatic Vehicle Location systems, Automatic Passenger counting systems, and Automatic Fare Collection systems. Those systems are not capable of completely tracking passengers' movements throughout the system. Hence accurate demand estimation is not possible. Global Navigation Satellite System technology can overcome the disadvantages of those systems. The main drawbacks of such an approach are the high-energy consumption and lack of indoor use. A novel approach for tracking passengers is introduced, which has the advantages of being both energy-efficient and accurate (indoor and outdoor). Such an approach can provide the necessary means to overcome the above-mentioned issues with current technologies. In this paper, the authors successfully demonstrate the capabilities of Bluetooth Low Energy for tracking passengers outdoor and indoor. Combined with the proposed algorithms, it is possible to accurately track passengers and model and estimate demand.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP020 Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-2485

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ben Moshe, Boaz
Hadas, Yuval
Levi, Harel

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Energy efficient technologies

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-2485

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:52PM