Efficient monitoring of public transport journeys

Felix Gündling (), Florian Hopp () and Karsten Weihe ()
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Felix Gündling: Technical University of Darmstadt
Florian Hopp: Technical University of Darmstadt
Karsten Weihe: Technical University of Darmstadt

Public Transport, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, No 8, 645 pages

Abstract: Abstract Many things can go wrong on a journey. From minor disturbances like a track change to major problems like train cancellations, everything can happen. The broad availability of smartphones enables us to keep the traveler up-to-date with information relevant for the journey. This way, the traveler can react to changes as early as possible and make well-informed decisions. Naive approaches are too inefficient to monitor a large number of journeys in real-time. This paper presents an efficient way to monitor millions of journeys in parallel. In our approach, the selection of change notices to be communicated to a traveler may be flexibly adapted to the travelers individual needs.

Keywords: Real-time; Public transport; Personalized; Connection monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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