GITMob meeting no. 17

This session took place on 9 December 2019 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Identifying relevant transfer-connections from entry-only Automatic Fare Collection data, presented by Joana Hora , a Ph.D. student of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems of FEUP.

Abstract

The synchronization of Public Transportation (PT) systems usually considers a simplified network to optimize the flows of passengers at the principal axes of the network. This work aims to identify the most relevant transfer-connections in a PT network. This goal is pursued with the development of a methodology to identify relevant transfer-connections from entry-only Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) data. The methodology has three main steps: the implementation of the Trip-Chaining-Method (TCM) to estimate the alighting stops of each AFC record, the identification of transfers, and finally, the selection of relevant transfer-connections.

Short Bio

Joana Hora received an MS.c. in Industrial Engineering in 2009, and an MS.c. in Quantitative Methods in 2012, by the University of Porto. She is a Ph.D. candidate of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems – MIT Portugal Program and a researcher at INESC TEC (CEGI). Her research interests include operations research, optimization methods, transportation systems, data mining, and data analysis.