Transfer’s monitoring in bus transit services by Automatic Vehicle Location data

Automatic Vehicle Location in Public Bus Transportation System

For a number of years vehicle fleet tracking systems are in use in companies operating large number of vehicles in the field. Proliferation of cheap and compact GPS receivers had the effect that Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems today almost exclusively use satellite based locating systems. This paper presents characteristics of realized city bus transit traffic in the city of Niš. Since...

A prescription for transit arrival/departure prediction using automatic vehicle location data

In this paper we present a general prescription for the prediction of transit vehicle arrival/departure. The prescription identifies the set of activities that are necessary to preform the prediction task, and describes each activity in a component based framework. We identify the three components, a Tracker, a Filter, and a Predictor, necessary to use automatic vehicle location (AVL) data to p...

Intelligent Transportation Systems Automatic Vehicle Location and Monitoring Systems

Automatic Vehicle Location Systems

In this article, a single application is suggested to determine the position of vehicles using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Geographical Position Systems (GPS). The part of the article material included mapping three dimensional coordinates to two dimensional coordinates using UTM or LAMBERT geographical methods, and the algorithm of conversion of GPS information into GIS maps is ...

Advanced Vehicle Monitoring and Communication Systems for Bus Transit, Benefits and Economic Feasibility

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