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Item Visualization and Assessment of the Effect of Roadworks on Traffic Congestion Using AVL Data of Public Transit(Springer Nature, 2022) Harsha, H.; Mulangi, R.H.; Kulkarni, V.Congestion-free movement of traffic during peak hours in urban areas is rarely witnessed nowadays. Several factors are responsible for traffic congestion, and a large amount of reliable data is necessary to investigate them. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of automated vehicle location (AVL) data of public transit in evaluating the effect of route diversion due to roadworks on traffic congestion. The public transit vehicle data from Mysore intelligent transport system were used for the purpose. In the preliminary analysis, the spatiotemporal variations in the speed data of public transit were visualized using spatiotemporal speed plots. A comparison study of traffic states in an urban street and an arterial road was conducted using a visualization tool. The data from Inner Ring Road of Mysore city were used to evaluate the effect of roadworks on traffic congestion. The road links of Inner Ring Road were evaluated for two scenarios: normal scenario and route diversion scenario. The results revealed that the spatiotemporal visualization technique can be used to diagnose the changes in traffic congestion, especially near intersections and bus stops. It is concluded that the AVL data from public transit buses proves to be a potential data source for traffic state prediction and evaluation of traffic congestion. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Item Short-term passenger demand modelling using automatic fare collection data: A case study of hubli-dharwad brts(Aracne Editrice, 2023) Halyal, S.; Mulangi, R.H.; Harsha, H.M.A well-planned Intelligent Transport System (ITS), is the need of the hour for solving the problem of excessive traffic and unacceptable travel durations in public transit systems. However, for the successful operation of an ITS, the forecasting of passenger demand on a regular basis is essential. Obtaining reliable and accurate passenger data required for forecasting passenger demand is a genuinely tedious task for most of the researchers. The current study focused on short-term forecasting of passenger demand using reliable ITS-based data from Hubli-Dharwad Bus Rapid Transit System (HDBRTS) as a case study. The aggregate pattern of passenger demand data was visualized using one month of Automated Fare Collection System (AFCS) data. Subsequently, Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Seasonal ARIMA models were used on the data of selected stations and tested for their forecasting accuracy. Outcomes of the current case study show that Seasonal ARIMA models are the most suitable for forecasting the passenger data over the conventional ARIMA models. The most suitable and reliant models were evidenced through lower values of Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC), and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). The current case study helps in having an inclusive view of the passenger flow characteristics for the further advancement of the system. Research work in the Indian context, especially on the usage of AFCS data, is quite limited, this study makes to explore the possibility of using AFCS data efficiently in forecasting passenger demand. © 2023, Aracne Editrice. All rights reserved.Item Application of Public Transit AVL Data for Evaluation of Delay Variability(Institute for Transport Studies in the European Economic Integration, 2023) Harsha, M.M.; Mulangi, R.H.; Panditharadhya, B.J.The travel time is the significant factor in evaluating efficiency and performance of public transit system. A greater percentage of travel time is accounted by bus stop delays which depends on passenger count, bus stop characteristics, traffic condition, bus performance, etc. Many of the Indian transit agencies store the passenger details stage wise not stop wise, which makes it difficult to evaluate delay variability at bus stop level. In this connection, Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) data from Intelligent Transport System (ITS) implemented at Mysore, India is considered for evaluating bus stop delay variability. The collected data is used for estimating delay at five stops by adopting trajectory-based formulation. The probability distributions have been utilized to model the variability in delay. The performance has been analysed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test. The daily variability of delay at bus stops has been evaluated using Coefficient of Variation (COV). The results of the performance evaluation of delay distributions show that the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution is the best descriptor of the delay variability in terms of accuracy, robustness, and survival capacity. In the absence of passenger data collection systems, method of evaluation of delay using AVL data presented in this study is helpful. © 2023 Institute for Transport Studies in the European Economic Integration. All rights reserved.Item Spatiotemporal capacity estimation of bus rapid transit system based on dwell time analysis(King Saud University, 2024) Angadi, V.S.; Halyal, S.; Mulangi, R.H.The performance study of an urban transport system, particularly a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), must report on its operations and reliability. Such study of BRTS comprises numerous facets, including capacity, which directly influences how the system practically operates and serves the commuters. Hubballi-Dharwad Bus Rapid Transit System (HDBRTS) has been operational since 2018. A performance study is necessary to evaluate the performance of HDBRTS, which aids in its upgradation and improvement. The current research uses the experimental technique through an innovative and inspired basis to comment on the HDBRTS's performance by estimating the corridor's operational capacity at different spatial and temporal fluctuations. The selected route of the HDBRTS comprises combined segregated (exclusive traffic environment) and unsegregated (mixed traffic environment) stretches. The current study mainly conducted a video graphics-based survey to acquire the necessary data on identified spatial and temporal trends at various HDBRTS bus stations. The essential data gathered consists of Dwell Time (DT)-based data at each station, summarising the total time a bus takes to serve passengers at a station. DT is inversely proportional to the capacity of the particular bus station, which is related to the Failure Rate (FR). FR values of all the bus stations of the route were analyzed using DT, and then capacity values were calculated at different spatiotemporal patterns. Study results show that the busiest stations of the identified routes with critical DT values have FR values in the range of 1–2%, contradicting previous studies. The variations in the capacity of the stations, both spatially and temporally, were graphically represented with the minimum capacity of the segregated stretch as 36 buses/hr and the unsegregated stretch as 31 buses/hr. Finally, the Level Of Service (LOS) of the chosen study corridor was developed using the K-Means clustering algorithm and validated using the Silhouette Coefficient technique. The silhouette coefficient values obtained range from 0.52 to 0.74, indicating a reasonable structure. © 2023 The AuthorsItem Deep learning-based public transit passenger flow prediction model: integration of weather and temporal attributes(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025) Shanthappa, N.K.; Mulangi, R.H.; Harsha, H.M.A reliable prediction model is critical for the public transit system to keep it periodically updated. However, it is a challenging task to develop a model of high precision when there is heterogeneity in the travel demand which is very common in developing countries. The spatial and temporal attributes along with external factors like weather should be incorporated into the prediction models to account for heterogeneity. Numerous studies in the past developed passenger flow prediction models considering spatial and temporal dependencies, whereas the integration of weather components with temporal dependencies while developing a prediction model for public bus transit has not been widely considered. Hence, the present research work employs long short-term memory (LSTM) to develop a route-level bus passenger flow prediction model, called RPTW-LSTM, by integrating temporal dependencies such as recent time intervals (R), daily periodicity (P) and weekly trend (T), and weather variables (W). The model is tested using a real-life dataset of the Udupi city bus service, located on the west coast of Karnataka, India. Additionally, Shapley Additive Explanation (SHAP) analysis is adopted to identify the relative importance of the features used. Results imply that the inclusion of the aforementioned factors enhanced the performance of RPTW-LSTM when compared to basic LSTM and other conventional models. Additionally, weekly trend and weather exhibit higher significance on the model than recent time intervals. This implies that evaluating the features affecting the heterogeneity in passenger flow and incorporating them into the model assists transport planners in achieving high precision. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2024.