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August 8-9, 2016 ▪ Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA www.northeastern.edu/transitdata2016
2nd International Workshop on Automated Data Collection Systems: Improving Urban Public Transport Planning and Operations
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ORGANIZING AND HOST COMMITTEE
Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Colloquium Chairman Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Nigel H.M. Wilson, Colloquium Co-Chairman Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
International Committee Brendon Hemily ITS America/Hemily and Associates Mark Hickman University of Queensland Fumitaka Kurauchi Gifu University Rabi Mishalani The Ohio State University Catherine Morency Polytechnique Montreal Marcela Munizaga Universidad de Chile Jan-Dirk Schmöcker Kyoto University Martin Trépanier Polytechnique Montreal
Nadine Aubry University Distinguished Professor and Dean
College of Engineering Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Anne-Carina Kelly Logistics Chair, College of Engineering
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Jerome F. Hajjar CDM Professor and Chairman
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Monday, August 8, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Lauren Sager Weinstein, Transport for London
Innovations in London’s Transport: Big Data for a Better Customer
Experience
About Lauren Sager Weinstein
Lauren Sager Weinstein, Head of Analytics, Customer Experience at Transport for London, has responsibility for the
analysis of customer data, supporting operational and planning areas in delivery of services to TfL’s customers. She joined
TfL in 2002, where she has held a variety of roles-- Senior Business Planner, Acting Head of Finance for London’s Transport
Museum, Chief of Staff to the Managing Director of Finance & Planning and the Head of Oyster Development. During her
time at TfL, Lauren has worked on a number of projects: the establishment of TfL’s first long-term funding package for
infrastructure investment; the launch of contactless payment card acceptance on the TfL network; the successful delivery
of the London 2012 Olympics by providing analysis on travel patterns; and most recently the launch of TfL’s customer data
toolkit. Originally from Washington, DC, USA, she has degrees from Princeton University and from the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government.
Monday, August 8, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Albert László Barabási, Northeastern University
Network Science: From Structure to Control
About Professor Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and a Distinguished University Professor
at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and holds appointments in the
Departments of Physics and College of Computer and Information Science, as well as in the Department of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women Hospital in the Channing Division of Network Science, and is a
member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. A Hungarian born native of
Transylvania, Romania, he received his Masters in Theoretical Physics at the Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary and
was awarded a Ph.D. three years later at Boston University. Barabási latest book is “Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind
Everything We Do” (Dutton, 2010) available in five languages. He has also authored “Linked: The New Science of
Networks” (Perseus, 2002), currently available in eleven languages, and is the co-editor of “The Structure and Dynamics
of Networks” (Princeton, 2005). His work lead to the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, and proposed the
Barabási-Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the
cellular telephone to the WWW or online communities.
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FULL PROGRAM All events will take place in 240 Egan Research Center unless otherwise noted (building #60 on the campus
map at the end of this program.
MONDAY, 8 AUGUST 2016
Underlined names are presenters
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Welcome
9:00-10:00 Keynote
Lauren Sager Weinstein,
Transport for London
Innovations in London’s Transport: Big Data for a Better Customer
Experience
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Session 1. OD matrices and link flows
Chair Martin Trépanier
Gabriel E. Sánchez Martínez A dynamic programming approach for destination inference of
public transit trips
Jan‐Dirk Schmöcker, Saeed
Maadi, Masahiro Tominaga
Calibration of a metro specific trip distribution model with smart
card data
Subrina Rahman, James Wong,
Candace Brakewood
Use of mobile ticketing data to estimate an origin-destination matrix
for NYC ferry service
Rabi Mishalani,
Marc McCord
Sensitivity of transit onboard survey passenger socioeconomic and
travel characteristic sample and response bias corrections using OD
flows determined from APC and AFC data
Eric J. Howard,
Mark Hallenbeck
Issues of scale and spatial aggregation in evaluation transit
programs using electronic fare card data
12:00-1:30 Lunch Keynote
Albert László Barabási Network Science: From structure to control
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1:30-3:00 Session 2. Travel behavior
Chair Rabi Mishalani
Toshiyuki Nakamura, Akihiko
Shimizu, Jan‐Dirk Schmöcker
Nobuhiro Uno, Takenori Iwamoto
Explaining passengers’ bus stop choice using smart card data
Neema Nassir, Mark Hickman,
Zhenliang Ma Frequency-based path choice models from smart card data
Yiwen Zhu, Haris N. Koutsopoulos,
Nigel H.M. Wilson
A probabilistic framework for passenger-to-itinerary assignment
based on automated data
Amr M. Wahaballa, Fumitaka
Kurauchi, Toshiyuki Yamamoto,
Jan-Dirk Schmöcker
Estimating transit travel time component based on smart card data
and operational records
George Goldberg,
John W. Polak
Using smart card data to identify individual passenger behaviours
during disruption on metro rail networks
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:15 Session 3. Applications with AVL data
Chair Gabriel E. Sánchez Martínez
Nicholas Stoll, Travis Glick,
Miguel Figliozzi Utilizing high resolution bus GPS data to improve transit mobility
Takenori Iwamoto, Toshiyuki
Nakamura, Nobuhiro Uno,
Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Kazuhiko
Makimura, Takahiro Ishigami
An empirical investigation of schedule delay propagation along a
bus route
Christopher Bucknell, Juan Carlos
Muñoz, Matías Navarro, Sebastián
Tamblay, Alejandro Schmidt, Jaime
Moya, Antonio Gschwender
Identifying congestion bottlenecks with automated vehicle location
systems: an application in Transantiago
Peter G. Furth,
Ahmed T. M. Halawani
Using automatic vehicle location data to measure the impact of
traffic congestion on bus routes
Joshua J Fabian,
Gabriel E Sánchez Martínez
An algorithm for the processing and cleansing of automatic vehicle
location data from multiple sources
Christopher Bucknell, Sebastián
Tamblay, Jaime Moya, Juan Carlos
Muñoz, Matías Navarro, Alejandro
Schmidt, Antonio Gschwender
An optimal enforcement strategy for bus lanes in Santiago de Chile
6:30 – 9:00 Dinner
Top of the Hub (800 Boylston Street, Prudential Tower)
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TUESDAY, 9 AUGUST 2016
9:00-10:30 Session 4. Understanding travel patterns
Chair Candace Brakewood
Yuval Hadas,
Boaz Ben Moshe
Bluetooth-low-energy based system for automatic public-transport
passengers' movement data collection
Jacek Pawlak,
John W. Polak
Reconstructing patterns of travel time use and productivity from wi-
fi analysis
Antoine Giraud, Félix Légaré
Martin Trépanier,
Catherine Morency
Combining smart card, automated passenger count and GTFS data
to visualize transit network use
Tim Scully, Jinhua Zhao,
John Attanucci
Using automatic mobile activity tracking data to understand travel
behavior
Marcela Munizaga, Felipe
Hernández, Margarita Amaya,
Ricardo Hurtubia
Analysis of the urban travel structure using smartcard and GPS data
from Santiago, Chile
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 5. Automated data deployment and use
Chair Brendon Hemily
Maguelonne Chandesris,
Anaïs Remy
New (big) data for mobility knowledge and management. Some
experiences and open challenges
Alla Reddy, Brian Levine Using automated data for operations control at NYCT
Vincent Dionne
Florian Cys
Building the foundation, raising the house and moving in! How APC,
AFC and RTOS are now integrated within a transit agency planning
activities
John Levin Establishing a transit ITS data exchange specification
Laurel Paget-Seekins,
Dominick Tribone Releasing Data to the Public: APIs, dashboards, and data policy
12:30-1:30 Lunch
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TUESDAY, 9 AUGUST 2016
1:30-2:45 Session 6. Planning models and applications
Chair Marcela Munizaga
Johan W. Joubert The role of automated fare collection data in integrated transport
planning: experience in Capetown, South Africa
Eric J. Howard,
Mark Hallenbeck Use of electronic fare transaction data for improved transit planning
Adam Davidson, Jonathan Peters,
Candace Brakewood
Using mobile trip planning data to overcome limits of regional
household transportation surveys
Andrew Stuntz, John Attanucci,
Fred Salvucci
Fare policy analysis using automated fare collection data: market
research and demand modeling at the MBTA
2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:30 Session 7. Decision support
Chair Jan-Dirk Schmöcker
Evelien van der Hurk, Paul
Bouman, Leo Kroon, Gabor
Maroti, Otto Anker Nielsen,
Peter Vervest
Passenger focused shuttle bus planning
Philippe Fortin, Catherine
Morency, Martin Trépanier
Comparing before and after situations with smart card data and
GTFS data
Peyman Noursalehi,
Haris N. Koutsopoulos Real time demand predictive analytics
Hayley Oberlander,
Taku Fujiyama Analyzing temporary exit-only station control at metro stations
4:30-5:00 Closing remarks and next steps
Brendon Hemily
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NOTES
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BOSTON ATTRACTIONS AND DINING General Information Boston, first incorporated as a town in 1630, and as a city in 1822, is one of America’s oldest cities. One of the best ways
of navigating Boston’s historic sites is the Freedom Trail. The Trail takes the visitor to 16 historical sites in the course of
two or three hours and covers two and a half centuries of America’s most significant past. A red brick or painted line
connects the sites on the Trail and serves as a guide. Since the past and the present live alongside the Trail, its visitors
have the opportunity to see the City as it truly is. Some of the historical sites included in the Freedom Trail are the Boston
Common, State House, Park Street Church, Granary Burying Ground, Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Site of
the Boston Massacre, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House, Old North Church, Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, USS Constitution,
and the Bunker Hill Monument.
In addition to Northeastern University, Boston has many other colleges and universities that are available to visit, including
scientific and engineering-focused schools such as Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
University, Boston College, Tufts University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. Other prominent institutions are
Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Emerson College, New England Conservatory, and
many more. More than a quarter million students attend colleges and universities in Boston alone making Boston a very
young, energetic, and inspiring city.
For more information about activities in and around Boston please contact the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors
Bureau at (888) SEE-BOSTON (888-733-2678).
Getting Around Boston
Walking: Chances are you’ve heard Boston referred to as “the walking city.” The City of Boston works hard to live up to
this title. Its Public Works and Transportation Departments are constantly marking crosswalks, performing regular
maintenance of traffic signals and pedestrian pushbuttons, and using innovative pedestrian safety signs at busy locations
in downtown Boston.
Driving: The City of Boston has partnered with local company Zipcar to promote car-sharing in an effort to reduce
congestion and promote sustainable transportation alternatives.
Commuter Rail/Subway/Bus: Thousands of residents and visitors use the extensive MBTA system of subways, commuter
trains, and buses to get in and around Boston. Visit www.mbta.com for information on schedules and fares and to access
the trip planner tool.
Taxis: Boston’s taxis are regulated by the Boston Police Department’s Hackney Carriage Unit. The Department has been
working to promote greener, fuel-efficient taxis through the Clean Air Cab program, providing online services to improve
customer experience, and implementing the use of credit fare readers.
Shopping and Dining
In the Back Bay, visitors can walk the length of Newbury Street for some of Boston’s most chic, fashionable stores. Boylston
Street (which runs parallel to Newbury Street) has a number of fine department stores. There are several shopping centers
in the heart of the city; the Shops at the Prudential Center connects by walkway to Copley Place, an enclosed mall full of
upscale stores and restaurants. Downtown Crossing has the full range of national department stores, boutiques and
pushcarts, which offer both the familiarity of home and local Boston souvenirs.
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From comfort food to gourmet cuisine, there’s something in Massachusetts to satisfy everyone’s inner foodie. State
specialties include fresh Atlantic seafood, authentic Italian in Boston’s North End, and farm-to-table freshness from our
numerous farmers’ markets. Restaurant options are plentiful both on campus and within a half-mile radius of
Northeastern.
On Campus
Chicken Lou's (lunch), across from law school on Forsyth Street.
Churchill Hall Dining Room (serves breakfast and lunch; breakfast voucher not accepted)
International Village Dining Hall (serves breakfast for conference housing participants with breakfast vouchers
only)
Faculty Center (serves lunch; it is recommended you call ahead at (617) 373-3535)
Food Court at Curry Student Center (Starbucks, Sweet Tomato Pizza, U-Burger and more)
Marino Center: Au Bon Pain, Boloco, Qdoba, Wollaston's Market (Lunch)
Off Campus
Uno’s (Dinner) on Huntington Avenue (next to the YMCA)
Panera (Lunch) Across from Uno’s and the YMCA
Cheesecake Factory or P.F. Changs in the Prudential Center Mall (Lunch and Dinner)
Brasserie Jo (Dinner, more upscale), in Colonnade Hotel
Lucca (Dinner, more upscale), on Huntington Avenue (across from Prudential Center Mall)
Entertainment
Museums: Boston has museums to suit almost every interest. The Museum of Fine Arts offers one of the largest art
collections in the world. Also offering contemporary art is the Institute for Contemporary Art, newly-relocated to the
Waterfront district. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has a garden courtyard blooming with life in all seasons,
surrounded by three floors of galleries. The Museum of Science offers hands-on exhibits, laser shows and IMAX films that
are fun for all ages, while the newly-renovated Children’s Museum can entertain and educate children and their parents.
Shows and Concerts: Boston has a strong tradition of performing arts. In the theatre district, there are the Opera House,
Colonial Theatre, Wilbur Theatre, Shubert Theatre and the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. The world-renowned
Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops perform at Symphony Hall.
Parks: Boston has multiple park systems within the city, including the Emerald Necklace, a 1,100-acre chain of nine parks,
including the Public Garden and the Boston Common. In the summer, the Boston Common’s Frog Pond features a spray
pool for children and the Swan Boats at the Public Garden. Just a short ferry ride from the city, you can visit the Boston
Harbor Islands, the country’s newest National Park.
Sports: Boston is home to several well-known franchises, most especially the Boston Red Sox, who won the 2004 and 2007
World Series Championships.
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DIRECTIONS AND CAMPUS MAP Raytheon Amphitheater:
All talks will take place in the Raytheon Amphitheater (Egan Center, Building #60 on map).
Transport to Northeastern:
Public Transit: Northeastern is well served by public transit: Green Line – Northeastern stop, Orange Line - Ruggles.
Parking: Parking is available in the Renaissance (Building #62 on map) and Gainsborough (Building #45 on map)
Garages. The fee is based on an hourly fee structure.
Campus Housing Address: International Village Residence Hall (Building #77 on map), 1175 Tremont Street,
Boston, MA 02115, USA
#60: Conference Location: Egan Center, Raytheon Amphitheater
#62: Renaissance Parking Garage & #45: Gainsborough Parking
#77: International Village: Accommodations
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