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An online learning approach to eliminate Bus Bunching in real-time

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Moreira-Matias, Luís, Cats, Oded, Gama, João, Mendes-Moreira, João, de Sousa, Jorge Freire·2016·Applied Soft Computing
DOI 10.1016/j.asoc.2016.06.031
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  • BusMezzo is applicable for investigating bus bunching phenomena and holding and control strategies.

    “Consequently, it is also applicable for investigating the bus bunching phenomena (Moreira-Matias et al. 2016) and holding and control strategies (Cats et al. 2011b; Laskaris et al. 2019; Gkiotsalitis and Cats 2019).”

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    The Abstract and §4 describe an online-learning framework for detecting and mitigating bus bunching, but do not identify BusMezzo or assess its applicability. A search for “BusMezzo” found no matching passage in our copy. The holding-and-control-strategies portion of the citing sentence is attributed to other sources. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Moreira-Matias, L., Cats, O., Gama, J., Mendes-Moreira, J., & de Sousa, J. F.
Affiliations
  • NEC (Germany) (DE)
  • Delft University of Technology (NL)
  • Universidade do Porto (PT)
Corresponding author
Moreira-Matias, Luís
ORCID
Venue
Applied Soft Computing
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-10
Volume
47
Pages
460-482
ISSN
1568-4946 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.asoc.2016.06.031
OpenAlex
W2472567412
Cited by
75
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FWCI
11.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
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  • Applied Soft Computing (acceptedVersion)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
  • Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • I-CITY (ICT-2013-612944)
  • ERDF (NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000064)
  • FCT (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037281)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Traffic control and management
Keywords
bus bunching, transit operations, location-based data, passenger waiting time, decision support system, regression analysis, perceptron, stochastic gradient descent, probabilistic reasoning

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