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Methodology for Analyzing the Travel Time Variability in Public Road Transport

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The quality of the time travel prediction is a key factor in the transport of people and goods. This prediction is used in different facets related to management and planning of the transport activity, having special influence in the service quality in public transport. In this paper a methodology to analyse the factors which affect to travel time prediction in routes of road public transport is presented. This methodology uses vehicles GPS data to identify the causes of the travel time variability, georeferencing these causes. The infrastructure elements required, data used and the processing techniques are explained. The methodology was applied to analyse the travel time of a line of a public transport company, presenting the results of this test.

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Cristóbal, T., Padrón, G., Quesada-Arencibia, A., Alayón, F., García, C.R. (2017). Methodology for Analyzing the Travel Time Variability in Public Road Transport. In: Ochoa, S., Singh, P., Bravo, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10586. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67585-5_5

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