Open Data Validation of the Delay Reductions of a Smart City Application (PTIPS)
Teck Kean Chin, Dr Emily Moylan & Dr Benjy Marks
University of Sydney, New South Wales
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ABSTRACT
Early smart city applications enabled more complex future projects. One example of this is the Public Transport Information and Priority System (PTIPS) which provides traffic signal priority for delayed buses in the New South Wales transit network. It relies on earlier Smart Cities oriented technology including actuated signals (SCATS), on-board global positioning systems (GPS) and occupancy data from transit smart cards to extend green time for buses that are running late. This presentation examines the leveraged benefit of the earlier projects by estimating the reduction in delay and uncertainty gained by PTIPS.
To validate the benefits of PTIPS, we combine General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) realtime data with information about the schedule (GTFS static) and the locations of SCATS signals. We test the hypothesis that the reduction in delay is correlated with the number of signalised intersections between bus stops when controlling for the total number of intersections, the distance between stops, and the type of land use.
In addition to measuring the benefit of PTIPS as a Smart City application, this research also serves to motivate legacy investments that might enable the next generation of Smart Cities Projects. This validation has bearing on future Smart Cities project appraisals in terms of direct advantages and quantifying the wider economic benefits.
Author(s)
Teck Kean Chin | University of Sydney
Teck is a Chartered Professional Engineer with over 20 years of international experience in providing strategic transport planning advice, traffic engineering and transport modelling. He specialists in advanced transport and traffic solutions with comprehensive analysis and forecasting using data analytics. Teck is committed to enhancing long-term infrastructure investment through sustainable planning; meeting transportation service demand and optimising operational resources. He founded Metis Consultants – a planning and engineering consultancy – in 2011, and four (4) years later he co-founded Research and Analytics – a data collection and surveys company. Teck is currently pursuing a PhD on Smart City Applications in Land Use and Transport at the University of Sydney.
Dr Emily Moylan | University of Sydney
Dr Emily Moylan is a Lecturer of Transport at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, where she researches the stochasticity of transport system performance. Emily has worked with Transport for New South Wales on travel time prediction and the development of journey-time reliability models. Her research is translated into practice via technical reports for Transport for New South Wales and the US Transit Cooperative Research Program. After completing her PhD at ANU, she studied Transport at University of California, Berkeley. From 2014-2018, she was a research associate at the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation at UNSW Sydney
Dr Benjy Marks | University of Sydney
Dr Benjy Marks is a Lecturer in Geomechanics at The University of Sydney. His research is centred around improving our understanding of granular materials, such as sand, snow and coffee. He is a developer of the DynamiX laboratory, which pioneers the use of X-ray technology for probing granular materials. He is also a Director of the Immersive Learning Laboratory, the largest facility for teaching using Virtual Reality in Australia. He has a keen interest in mapping and modelling of geospatial problems. Dr Marks is a car and bike owner, as well as a regular public transport user.
