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    Visualisation and Assessment of Seasonal Variations in Bus Passenger Mobility Pattern
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024) Nithin, K.S.; Mulangi, R.H.; Sharma, R.; Baishya, H.; Panth, P.; Mohtashim, M.D.
    Passenger mobility pattern is an essential characteristic in designing, managing and operating the public transit system. It depicts how passenger behaviour responds to changes in spatial and temporal attributes. In the past, studies have done the spatiotemporal analysis of hourly and daily variations but the effect of seasonal variation on the passenger mobility pattern has been neglected which causes inadequate planning and has led to an inefficient transit system. In the present study, non-negative tensor decomposition (NTD) is used to carry out spatiotemporal analysis of bus passengers by considering seasonal variation in passenger mobility. Six months of electronic ticketing machine (ETM) data of the intra-city bus service of Davangere is used. From the analysis, it is observed that people coming from outside, majorly from suburban and village areas used public transit more during the wet season compared to dry months. It portrays that people are sensitive to weather conditions and tend to shift from private vehicles to public transit and vice-versa. Hence, this methodology helps transit planners in the managerial aspect through rescheduling services and frequency. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.