Intelligent Transportation Systems

Mobiliti is introduced as a foundation for a Digital Twin for managing transportation systemsTransportation systems across metropolitan regions and for planning and designing urban networks. Regional transportation systemsTransportation systems consist of interconnected subnetworks, each governed by different municipalities. Although localization simplifies analysis, transportation projects must be evaluated within the context of the larger regional network due to their potential impacts on overall network performance. The computational challenges of simulating metropolitan networks are...

This report identifies opportunities to improve transit performance using Advanced Public Transportation System (APTS) Technologies, assesses transit operator viewpoints on and experiences with APTS technologies, and proposes how current adoption and utilization practices might be improved so that these technologies are used in a more efficient and effective manner.The research consisted of three main phases. First, we identified APTS technologies and developed a framework for assessing their potential value in improving transit system performance. We considered three types of APTS...

We present an urban science framework to characterize phone users’ exposure to different street context types based on network science, geographical information systems (GIS), daily individual trajectories, and street imagery. We consider street context as the inferred usage of the street, based on its buildings and construction, categorized in nine possible labels. The labels define whether the street is residential, commercial or downtown, throughway or not, and other special categories. We apply the analysis to the City of Boston, considering daily trajectories synthetically generated...

If you've seen an electronic message sign alongthehighwaythattells you how long it will take to get downtown or to the airport, or paid your toll or your parking fees with an electronic tag, or ridden a bus that triggered the traffic lights to turn green as it approached them, then you have experienced some of the benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)—an...