Presentation by Richard Thurbin of Cloud Amber, at the Traveline Conference 2012

1. Analysis of Planned Journeys
&
By Richard Thurbin
richard.thurbin@cloudamber.com
+44 7917 704 145

3. SCOOT Diversion
Argonaut
Accidents Detector AVL
Vehicle
Centric Queues
Neighbouring CDB
TIH
Journey
Times
Engine
ANPR
Reports
Street
works
Visibilit Weather Pollution Events Rising
October 12 Rail Info
CCTV AVL Critical
Issues
PGS VMS
3 y Bollards
Stop
Centric

4. Traffic Data Set
Object Current Live Items Records Per Day Archived Records
Accident 1 - 290
Car Park 173 899 1,005,557
CCTV 358 3,935 -
Detector 1,395 599,545 110,194,717
Event 106 - 577
Incident 8 - 13,182
Streetwork 399 - 8,144
Journey Time Link 798 57,484 26,232,499
Journey Time Corridor 317 88,217 10,814,350
Electronic Traffic Sign 1,112 9,446 144,202,932

5. Analysis
• Logs taken from Thursday 31st May from
Nexus region
• 3334 Next Buses requests
• 705 Journeys Planned
• Data processed, analysed and
presented
• Questions asked:
– Where are Next Buses enquiries?
– What is the enquiry horizon?
– Where are the journeys are people asking
about?

7. Next Buses Districts
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
Gateshead
Sunderland
South Tyneside

8. Next Buses Localities
Newcastle upon Tyne
Gateshead
Sunderland
Durham
Ashington
Bishop Auckland
Heworth
Newton Aycliffe
Gosforth
Peterlee
Chester-le-Street
Ferryhill
Shiremoor
Wilton
North Shields
Longbenton
South Shields

9. Stop Areas
Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
Monument (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
Central Station (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
Shiremoor (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
Haymarket (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
Longbenton (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
ICI Headquarters
South Gosforth (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
Simonside (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
Newcastle International Ferry Terminal
Regent Centre (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)
+ many others

10. Time Spread
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Count Hour of day

12. Mapping
• Snapshot from early
May
• Green circle
– Start
• Yellow line
– As the crow flies
• Red diamond
– Destination
http://traveline.data.cloudamberdevelopment.com

13. Unfiltered

14. Unfiltered

15. 12am to 6am

16. 12am to 6am

17. 6am to 9am

18. 6am to 9am

19. 9am to 12pm

20. 9am to 12pm

21. 12pm to 2pm

22. 12pm to 2pm

23. 12pm to 2pm

24. 2pm to 5pm

25. 2pm to 5pm

26. 5pm to 7pm

27. 5pm to 7pm

28. 7pm to 12am

29. 7pm to 12am

30. Time Spread
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Count Hour of day

31. Next Buses & Journey Planning
Comparison
700
600 Red – Next Buses
Blue – Journey Planning
500
400
300
200
100
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Count Hour of day

32. Journey Plan Horizon
350
300 13 Enquiries > 24hr
250
200
150
100
50
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Count
Hours Ahead

33. Journey Plan Horizon (1hr)
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 21 22 23 25 26 28 29 31 32 33 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 45 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 59
Count
Minutes Ahead

34. Further Questions
• Fulfilment?
• Planned disruptions?
• Actual disruptions?
• Quality of service?
• Journey time comparison between
modes?
• How do enquiries relate to population
density?

35. Further Questions
• Creating the potential for a passenger
centric outcome:
• Deep integration with live actual traffic
conditions?
• Potential for dynamic journey re-
assessment based on condition changes?
• Customer engagement – alerts and
feedback?
• Operator feedback?

36. What is the point of
Traveline?
without live information…

37. Thank you for listening
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