Exploiting Multi-modal Contextual Sensing for City-bus's Stay Location Characterization: Towards Sub-60 Seconds Accurate Arrival Time Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13131v1
• Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 13:47:10 GMT
• Title: Exploiting Multi-modal Contextual Sensing for City-bus's Stay Location Characterization: Towards Sub-60 Seconds Accurate Arrival Time Prediction
• Authors: Ratna Mandal, Prasenjit Karmakar, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Debaleen Das Spandan, Shouvit Pradhan, Sujoy Saha, Sandip Chakraborty and Subrata Nandi
• Abstract summary: BuStop is a system for extracting and characterizing the stay locations from multi-modal sensing using commuters' smartphones. We show that BuStop works with high accuracy in identifying different stay locations like regular bus stops, random ad-hoc stops, stops due to traffic congestion stops at traffic signals, and stops at sharp turns.
• Score: 7.29909669028776
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Intelligent city transportation systems are one of the core infrastructures of a smart city. The true ingenuity of such an infrastructure lies in providing the commuters with real-time information about citywide transports like public buses, allowing her to pre-plan the travel. However, providing prior information for transportation systems like public buses in real-time is inherently challenging because of the diverse nature of different stay-locations that a public bus stops. Although straightforward factors stay duration, extracted from unimodal sources like GPS, at these locations look erratic, a thorough analysis of public bus GPS trails for 720km of bus travels at the city of Durgapur, a semi-urban city in India, reveals that several other fine-grained contextual features can characterize these locations accurately. Accordingly, we develop BuStop, a system for extracting and characterizing the stay locations from multi-modal sensing using commuters' smartphones. Using this multi-modal information BuStop extracts a set of granular contextual features that allow the system to differentiate among the different stay-location types. A thorough analysis of BuStop using the collected dataset indicates that the system works with high accuracy in identifying different stay locations like regular bus stops, random ad-hoc stops, stops due to traffic congestion stops at traffic signals, and stops at sharp turns. Additionally, we also develop a proof-of-concept setup on top of BuStop to analyze the potential of the framework in predicting expected arrival time, a critical piece of information required to pre-plan travel, at any given bus stop. Subsequent analysis of the PoC framework, through simulation over the test dataset, shows that characterizing the stay-locations indeed helps make more accurate arrival time predictions with deviations less than 60s from the ground-truth arrival time.

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