Abstract
In this paper, we propose a transit service Feeder to tackle the last-mile problem, i.e., passengers' destinations lay beyond a walking distance from a public transit station. Feeder utilizes ridesharing-based vehicles (e.g., minibus) to deliver passengers from existing transit stations to selected stops closer to their destinations. We infer real-time passenger demand (e.g., exiting stations and times) for Feeder design by utilizing extreme-scale urban infrastructures, which consist of 10 million cellphones, 27 thousand vehicles, and 17 thousand smartcard readers for 16 million smartcards in a Chinese city Shenzhen. Regarding these numerous devices as pervasive sensors, we mine both online and offline data for a two-end Feeder service: a back-end Feeder server to calculate service schedules; front-end customized Feeder devices in vehicles for real-time schedule downloading. The evaluation results show that compared to the ground truth, Feeder reduces last-mile distances by 68% and travel time by 52% on average.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | IPSN 2015 - Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (Part of CPS Week) |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Pages | 226-237 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450334754 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 13 2015 |
Event | 14th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2015 - Seattle, United States Duration: Apr 13 2015 → Apr 16 2015 |
Publication series
Name | IPSN 2015 - Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (Part of CPS Week) |
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Other
Other | 14th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2015 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Seattle |
Period | 4/13/15 → 4/16/15 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors thank our shepherds and Dr. Ling Yin in SIAT for the data support. This work was supported in part by US NSF Grant CNS-1239226, NSFC Grant U1401258, and China 973 Program 2015CB352400.
Keywords
- Last-mile transit
- Urban infrastructure