The Across Latitudes and Cultures BRT Centre of Excellence is pleased to announce a monthly webinar series to share timely public transit research and encourage ongoing collaboration. The series is open to anyone and will address issues relevant to researchers and practitioners. Please share this announcement with your extended network.
The next webinar was:
Making Use of Automated Data Collection to Improve Transit Effectiveness
Friday, January 25, 2013 at 1300 Chilean Summer Time (11am Eastern Standard Time)
Presented by Nigel Wilson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Register here
See summary and presentation below.
Please email Laurel at lpaget@uc.cl with any questions or future topic suggestions.
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Making Use of Automated Data Collection to Improve Transit Effectiveness
Automatic data collection systems including automatic vehicle location systems, automatic passenger counting systems, advanced customer information systems and electronic fare payment and ticketing systems are becoming ubiquitous in large public transport systems and are starting to have an impact on the quality and availability of information for service and operations planning, service control and measuring the resultant service quality delivered to transit passengers. While the impacts of these advances are already apparent in many systems, there is the potential for much deeper impact in the future. The power and cost-effectiveness of information technology continues to advance and will offer opportunities to develop and apply more ambitious models which should positively affect many facets of the performance of public transport systems. This presentation will present recent applications of quantitative methods based on richer automated data collection systems in public transport and discuss the potential for further enhancement of critical public transport agency functions in the future.
