Design of a Real-time Crowdsourced Mobility Sensor for Public Transportation Networks

Marc Pous, Daniel Villatoro, F. Xavier Mercadal, Arol Viñolas

2013

Abstract

Recently, and with the ever-increasing interest in Smart-city paradigm, urban mobility optimization is becoming an active research area. We are specially focused on the real-time optimization of the Public Transportation Networks, and the passenger flows. In order to achieve such task, it becomes essential to know the state of the network and its load of passengers in real-time. To the best of our knowledge, no existing infrastructure is able to keep track of the amount of public transportation users (and their position) in real time. In this paper we propose a framework architecture that transforms the passengers in active sensors and profit from the information they provide to estimate the actual usage of the network. In order to create an engaging experience for passengers (and incentivize the activation of the mobility sensor) we have implemented a higher level layer which offers users with a trivia-like game, where users compete against other users in real-time, while providing their position on the network.

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in Harvard Style

Pous M., Villatoro D., Mercadal F. and Viñolas A. (2013). Design of a Real-time Crowdsourced Mobility Sensor for Public Transportation Networks . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-8565-45-7, pages 231-235. DOI: 10.5220/0004224402310235


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sensornets13,
author={Marc Pous and Daniel Villatoro and F. Xavier Mercadal and Arol Viñolas},
title={Design of a Real-time Crowdsourced Mobility Sensor for Public Transportation Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2013},
pages={231-235},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004224402310235},
isbn={978-989-8565-45-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - Design of a Real-time Crowdsourced Mobility Sensor for Public Transportation Networks
SN - 978-989-8565-45-7
AU - Pous M.
AU - Villatoro D.
AU - Mercadal F.
AU - Viñolas A.
PY - 2013
SP - 231
EP - 235
DO - 10.5220/0004224402310235