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It is well known that the definition of bus schedules is critical for the service reliability of public transports. Several proposals have been suggested, using data from Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems, in order to enhance the reliability of public transports. In this paper we study the optimum number of schedules and the days covered by each one of them, in order to increase reliability. We use the Dynamic Time Warping distance in order to calculate the similarities between two different dimensioned irregularly spaced data sequences before the use of data clustering techniques. The application of this methodology with the K-Means for a specific bus route demonstrated that a new schedule for the weekends in non-scholar periods could be considered due to its distinct profile from the remaining days. For future work, we propose to apply this methodology to larger data sets in time and in number, corresponding to different bus routes, in order to find a consensual cluster between all the routes. ©2010 IEEE.

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In the last decade, the real-time vehicle location systems attracted everyone attention for the new kind of rich spatio-temporal information. The fast processing of this large amount of information is a growing and explosive challenge. Taxi companies are already exploring such information in efficient taxi dispatching and time-saving route finding. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to produce online short term predictions on the passenger demand spatial distribution over 63 taxi stands in the city of Porto, Portugal. We did so using time series forecasting techniques to the processed events constantly communicated for 441 taxi vehicles. Our tests - using 4 months of real data - demonstrated that this model is a true major contribution to the driver mobility intelligence: 76% of the 86411 demanded taxi services were accurately forecasted in a 30 minutes time horizon.

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Text Categorization (TC) has attracted the attention of the research community in the last decade. Algorithms like Support Vector Machines, Naïve Bayes or k Nearest Neighbors have been used with good performance, confirmed by several comparative studies. Recently, several ensemble classifiers were also introduced in TC. However, many of those can only provide a category for a given new sample. Instead, in this paper, we propose a methodology - MECAC - to build an ensemble of classifiers that has two advantages to other ensemble methods: 1) it can be run using parallel computing, saving processing time and 2) it can extract important statistics from the obtained clusters. It uses the mean co-association matrix to solve binary TC problems. Our experiments revealed that our framework performed, on average, 2.04% better than the best individual classifier on the tested datasets. These results were statistically validated for a significance level of 0.05 using the Friedman Test. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

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In recent years, both companies and researchers have been exploring intelligent data analysis to increase the profitability of the taxi industry. Intelligent systems for online taxi dispatching and time saving route finding have been built to do so. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to produce online predictions regarding the spatial distribution of passenger demand throughout taxi stand networks. We have done so by assembling two well-known time series short-term forecast models: the time-varying Poisson models and ARIMA models. Our tests were performed using data gathered over a period of 6 months and collected from 63 taxi stands within the city of Porto, Portugal. Our results demonstrate that this model is a true major contribution to the driver mobility intelligence: 78% of the 253745 demanded taxi services were correctly forecasted in a 30 minutes horizon. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.

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Nowadays, Informed Driving is crucial to the transportation industry. We present an online recommendation model to help the driver to decide about the best stand to head in each moment, minimizing the waiting time. Our approach uses time series forecasting techniques to predict the spatiotemporal distribution in real-time. Then, we combine this information with the live current network status to produce our output. Our online test-beds were carried out using data obtained from a fleet of 441 vehicles running in the city of Porto, Portugal. We demonstrate that our approach can be a major contribution to this industry: 395.361/506.873 of the services dispatched were correctly predicted. Our tests also highlighted that a fleet equipped with such framework surpassed a fleet that is not: they experienced an average waiting time to pick-up a passenger 5% lower than its competitor.