Real Time Bus Arrival Information Systems

The synthesis describes the state of the practice in real-time bus arrival informations systems, including both U.S. and international experience. The panel for this project chose to focus on bus systems, rather than all transit modes, and on the following six elements of these systems: bus system characteristics; real-time bus arrival information system characteristics, including information about the underlying technology and dissemination media; system prediction, accuracy, and reliability; system costs; customer and media reactions; and institutional and organizational issues associated with the system.

Provides a useful summary of the state of the practice in the area of improved transit traveler information. The result identifies transit traveler information needs, assesses the state of the art in providing transit traveler information, provides examples of customer information systems from both inside the transit industry and related industries, discusses transit traveler information as part of larger community information systems, and offers new directions for the transit industry in providing traveler information.

This two-volume-set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Future Information Technology, FutureTech 2011, held in Crete, Greece, in June 2011. The 123 revised full papers presented in both volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on future information technology, IT service and cloud computing; social computing, network, and services; forensics for future generation communication environments; intelligent transportation systems and applications; multimedia and semantic technologies; information science and technology.

Viewing transportation through the lens of current social, economic, and policy aspects, this four-volume reference work explores the topic of transportation across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas, including geography, public policy, business, and economics. Features: Approximately 675 signed articles authored by prominent scholars are arranged in A-to-Z fashion and conclude with Further Readings and cross references. A Chronology helps readers put individual events into historical context; a Reader’s Guide organizes entries by broad topical or thematic areas; a detailed index helps users quickly locate entries of most immediate interest; and a Resource Guide provides a list of journals, books, and associations and their websites. While articles were written to avoid jargon as much as possible, a Glossary provides quick definitions of technical terms. To ensure full, well-rounded coverage of the field, the General Editor with expertise in urban planning, public policy, and the environment worked alongside a Consulting Editor with a background in Civil Engineering. The index, Reader’s Guide, and cross references combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition. Available in both print and electronic formats, Encyclopedia of Transportation is an ideal reference for libraries and those who want to explore the issues that surround transportation in the United States and around the world. Key Themes: Administration, Operations, and Evaluation Air Transportation Systems Economics of Transportation Energy, Environmental, and Health Impacts Facilities and Infrastructure Intermodal Transportation Systems International Transportation and Policy Labor Issues/Employee Relations Planning and Policy Safety and Security Social Issues in Transportation Surface Transportation Systems Technology, Design, and Engineering Transportation, Finance of Transportation Legislation Transportation Modeling Transportation Organizations and Agencies Travel Behavior and Research Water Transportation Systems

Ch. 1. Introduction. Project background and objectives. Technical approach to the project. Report organization -- ch. 2. Literature review. Underlying technology. Mobile device technology. Characteristics of the mobile information. Resources required to provide mobile services. Contribution of mobile messaging to an overall agency communications strategy -- ch. 3. Characteristics of underlying technology. Mobile technology, and mobile information. Underlying technology and real-time mobile message types. Mobile technology. Characteristics of real-time information provided on mobile devices -- ch. 4. Resource requirements -- ch. 5. Contribution of mobile messaging to agency communications strategy -- ch. 6. Case studies. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Portland, OR). Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Oakland, CA). LeeTran (Lee County/Fort Myers, FL). Transport for London (London, United Kingdom) -- ch. 7. Findings, lessons learned, and conclusions. Summary of project scope. Project findings. Lessons learned -- Conclusions -- Suggestions for future study -- References -- appendix A. Bibliography -- appendix B. Survey questionnaire -- appendix C. List of agencies responding to the survey -- appendix D. Additional information.

Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: Bus rapid transit technologies in the Americas : an overview (Diaz, RB and Schneck, DC); Zigzagging of bus routes : an analytical approach (Kho, SY); Optimal bus stop spacing through dynamic programming and geographic modeling (Furth, PG, Rahbee, AB); Conditional bus priority at signalized intersections : better service with less traffic disruption (Furth, PG and Muller, THJ); Dynamic right-of-way for transit vehicles : integrated modeling approach for optimizing signal control on mixed traffic arterials (Duerr, PA); Traction performance of transit and paratransit vehicles in winter (Raad, L and Lu, JJ); Procedure to evaluate alternatives to transit bus replacement (Khasnabis, S and Naseer, M); Internet-based decision support for advanced public transportation systems technology (Stone, JR, Ahmed, T and Nalevanko, A); Effectiveness of taxi partitions : Baltimore, Maryland, case study (Stone, JR and Stevens, DC); Evaluating real-time bus arrival information systems (Mishalani, RG, Lee, S and McCord, MR); Intelligent transportation system technology in a shared electric vehicle program (Barth, M, Todd, M and Murakami, H); Buses as a traffic probe : demonstration project (Hall, RW and Vyas, N); Simulating bus operations with enhanced corridor simulator : case study of New Jersey transit bus route 39 (Ding, Y, Chien, SI, and Zayas, NA); Technology transfer in the transit industry (Nakanishi, YJ and Elrahman, OA); Development of Florida's transit level-of-service indicator (Ryus, P, Ausman, J, Teaf, D, Cooper, M and Knoblauch, M); Transit passenger perceptions of transit-related crime reduction measures (Reed, TB, Wallace, RR and Rodriguez, DA).

The three-volume set LNAI 3213, LNAI 3214, and LNAI 3215 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2004, held in Wellington, New Zealand in September 2004. The over 450 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers present a wealth of original research results from the field of intelligent information processing in the broadest sense; among the areas covered are artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, cognitive technologies, soft computing, data mining, knowledge processing, various new paradigms in biologically inspired computing, and applications in various domains like bioinformatics, finance, signal processing etc.