Using smart card and GPS data for policy and planning: The case of Transantiago

Antonio Gschwender, Marcela Munizaga and Carolina Simonetti

Research in Transportation Economics, 2016, vol. 59, issue C, 242-249

Abstract: The introduction in 2007 of a new public transport system in Santiago, Chile, brought to us an unexpected gift: the availability of Big Data; massive amounts of passive data obtained from technological devices installed to control the operation of buses and to administer the fare collection process. Many other cities in the world have experienced the same, and sooner or later, this is likely to happen everywhere. Seeing this opportunity, many researchers have developed tools to obtain valuable information from the available data. However, the case of Transantiago is particularly advantageous because all buses have GPS devices and the smart card presents an overall 97% penetration rate.

Keywords: Public transport; Passive data; Automatic vehicle location; Automatic fare collection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2016.05.004

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