There have been hundreds of on-demand transit projects deployed around the world, but are transit agencies designing them for success? Pantonium’s team will discuss various approaches to designing an on-demand transit service based on our experiences deploying projects around North America and our observations from other similar projects.
Open and participatory planning process is built into planning for the Capital Bikeshare system in Arlington, Virginia, with meetings and communication with civic associations and individual residents about individual sites.
BikeArlington, the Arlington County Department of Environmental Services, and Capital Bikeshare recently developed a brief document, Building Bikeshare Together, which outlines this process step by step.
Resumen:
In recent decades, the main focus in public transport operations has been increasing its speed. Increasing speed not only allows for faster trips, but also a higher frequency with the same fleet, thus reducing waiting times and crowdedness inside the vehicles. This interest in speed has ignored a second key dimension in level of service: reliability. In this article, we provide a full range of impacts of an unreliable public transport service. We demonstrate how regularising headway could improve level of service beyond the gains of simply increasing the operational speed. Regular headways positively affect comfort, reliability, travel and wait time, operational costs, and even some urban impacts of bus services. Thus, the focus for public transport agencies and operators should be redirected to reliability. This is fundamental for making public transport an attractive travel alternative and therefore must become a core goal for urban sustainability.
Open and participatory planning process is built into planning for the Capital Bikeshare system in Arlington, Virginia, with meetings and communication with civic associations and individual residents about individual sites.
BikeArlington, the Arlington County Department of Environmental Services, and Capital Bikeshare recently developed a brief document, Building Bikeshare Together, which outlines this process step by step.
Resumen:
In recent decades, the main focus in public transport operations has been increasing its speed. Increasing speed not only allows for faster trips, but also a higher frequency with the same fleet, thus reducing waiting times and crowdedness inside the vehicles. This interest in speed has ignored a second key dimension in level of service: reliability. In this article, we provide a full range of impacts of an unreliable public transport service. We demonstrate how regularising headway could improve level of service beyond the gains of simply increasing the operational speed. Regular headways positively affect comfort, reliability, travel and wait time, operational costs, and even some urban impacts of bus services. Thus, the focus for public transport agencies and operators should be redirected to reliability. This is fundamental for making public transport an attractive travel alternative and therefore must become a core goal for urban sustainability.
Bandwagon ride consolidation services for airports Mark Harrison
Bandwagon makes it easy for people to share rides in taxis and car services. We have created a platform for on-demand transportation that is affordable and sustainable. Our mobile app, curbside HOP Lanes, and Enterprise Platform run on our Ridebatch Server™ — a software application that uses a proprietary routing algorithm to quickly identify and conveniently combine rides.
A system of cars, trains, planes, ships and peopleChris Luongo
When looking at the vast network of transportation systems, there are many examples across road, rail, air and sea where new innovations and technologies are changing how people and things move from here . . . to there.
RV 2014: Performance Measurements People can Actually Understand by Kevin BaconRail~Volution
Performance Measurements People can Actually Understand
How can we measure and make the case for streetcar, light rail and bus rapid transit in an understandable way? How can we use the results to inform the elected officials who are held accountable for transportation decisions? The New Starts Criteria, often used to evaluate projects, can be complicated and confusing to the public. Learn techniques to describe project benefits in line with the values of citizens and elected officials. Hear how California is replacing traditional level-of-service analysis with metrics aligned with environmental goals. Will it lead to more sustainable transportation options and healthier communities, instead of roadway solutions? Come along and find out!
Moderator: Zakhary Mallett, Director, District 7, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
Kevin Bacon, Urban Designer, Perkins+Will, Atlanta, Georgia
Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, Energy & Transportation Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, California
Hal R. Johnson, AICP, Manager of Project Development, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Chris Quinn, Project Manager, Regional Transportation District, Denver, Colorado
Enhancing Traffic Intersection Control with Intelligent ObjectsRudi Ball
Presented at the Urban Internet of Things 2010 - Tokyo, Japan. 28th November 2010.
Abstract: Traffic control is an old and ever growing problem in cities throughout the world. Within many cities, intersections represent bottlenecks in the flow of traffic. Evaluating intersections control is complex and difficult. Given this, intersection management is both costly and time consuming. This paper considers the potential benefits of enhancing the traffic intersection with the use of intelligent objects in vehicles. We present, compare and demonstrate a novel Vehicle Back-Off Protocol against a classical Timed Traffic Control system. Our protocol uses ad-hoc messaging, collision avoidance and shared journey plans as a means by which to reduce delay, adapt a journey and maximize the efficient usage of a traffic intersection. We use simulation to model and evaluate intersection control.
O Centro de Excelência em BRT Across Latitudes and Cultures (ALC-BRT CoE) promoveu o Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Workshop: Experiences and Challenges (Workshop BRT: Experiências e Desafios) dia 12/07/2013, no Rio de Janeiro. O curso foi organizado pela EMBARQ Brasil, com patrocínio da Fetranspor e da VREF (Volvo Research and Education Foundations).
Microtransit Overview: A Research PerspectiveRPO America
Andrea Hamre, Western Transportation Institute, recapped current trends and research in rural approaches to microtransit, or on-demand public transit, during a virtual roundtable on June 29, 2023.
The second Discussion Paper in the Paradise Project series, Moving About Paradise compares area coverage and travel times under the Quickway Proposal, the innovative community-based transit plan, and under the SANDAG 2050 transit plan. The Quickway Proposal extends rapid transit access to many more people, connects to many more jobs and other destinations, and saves considerable travel time, in addition to better supporting regional growth and climate change goals.
Bandwagon ride consolidation services for airports Mark Harrison
Bandwagon makes it easy for people to share rides in taxis and car services. We have created a platform for on-demand transportation that is affordable and sustainable. Our mobile app, curbside HOP Lanes, and Enterprise Platform run on our Ridebatch Server™ — a software application that uses a proprietary routing algorithm to quickly identify and conveniently combine rides.
A system of cars, trains, planes, ships and peopleChris Luongo
When looking at the vast network of transportation systems, there are many examples across road, rail, air and sea where new innovations and technologies are changing how people and things move from here . . . to there.
RV 2014: Performance Measurements People can Actually Understand by Kevin BaconRail~Volution
Performance Measurements People can Actually Understand
How can we measure and make the case for streetcar, light rail and bus rapid transit in an understandable way? How can we use the results to inform the elected officials who are held accountable for transportation decisions? The New Starts Criteria, often used to evaluate projects, can be complicated and confusing to the public. Learn techniques to describe project benefits in line with the values of citizens and elected officials. Hear how California is replacing traditional level-of-service analysis with metrics aligned with environmental goals. Will it lead to more sustainable transportation options and healthier communities, instead of roadway solutions? Come along and find out!
Moderator: Zakhary Mallett, Director, District 7, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
Kevin Bacon, Urban Designer, Perkins+Will, Atlanta, Georgia
Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, Energy & Transportation Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, California
Hal R. Johnson, AICP, Manager of Project Development, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Chris Quinn, Project Manager, Regional Transportation District, Denver, Colorado
Enhancing Traffic Intersection Control with Intelligent ObjectsRudi Ball
Presented at the Urban Internet of Things 2010 - Tokyo, Japan. 28th November 2010.
Abstract: Traffic control is an old and ever growing problem in cities throughout the world. Within many cities, intersections represent bottlenecks in the flow of traffic. Evaluating intersections control is complex and difficult. Given this, intersection management is both costly and time consuming. This paper considers the potential benefits of enhancing the traffic intersection with the use of intelligent objects in vehicles. We present, compare and demonstrate a novel Vehicle Back-Off Protocol against a classical Timed Traffic Control system. Our protocol uses ad-hoc messaging, collision avoidance and shared journey plans as a means by which to reduce delay, adapt a journey and maximize the efficient usage of a traffic intersection. We use simulation to model and evaluate intersection control.
O Centro de Excelência em BRT Across Latitudes and Cultures (ALC-BRT CoE) promoveu o Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Workshop: Experiences and Challenges (Workshop BRT: Experiências e Desafios) dia 12/07/2013, no Rio de Janeiro. O curso foi organizado pela EMBARQ Brasil, com patrocínio da Fetranspor e da VREF (Volvo Research and Education Foundations).
Microtransit Overview: A Research PerspectiveRPO America
Andrea Hamre, Western Transportation Institute, recapped current trends and research in rural approaches to microtransit, or on-demand public transit, during a virtual roundtable on June 29, 2023.
The second Discussion Paper in the Paradise Project series, Moving About Paradise compares area coverage and travel times under the Quickway Proposal, the innovative community-based transit plan, and under the SANDAG 2050 transit plan. The Quickway Proposal extends rapid transit access to many more people, connects to many more jobs and other destinations, and saves considerable travel time, in addition to better supporting regional growth and climate change goals.
Istanbul IETT Professional Development Workshop, #3 of 6_Transit Demand Manag...VTPI
Istanbul IETT Professional Development Workshop, #3 of 6, Transit Demand Management
Presenter: Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Assistant: Aysha Cohen, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Scholar
Presentation Date: June 15, 2015
Transit Demand Management_Istanbul IETT Workshop 3_15 June 2015VTPI
Istanbul IETT Professional Development Workshop, #3 of 6
- Presenter: Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
- Assistant: Aysha Cohen, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Scholar
- Presentation Date: June 16, 2015
Mobility Pricing: How to Harness Mobility Pricing to Reduce Congestion, Promo...WSP
Acting as a technical analysis lead for the Metro Vancouver Mobility Pricing Independent Commission, WSP experts studied the use of congestion charging and mobility pricing for the Metro Vancouver Regional District.
An eight-month study ensued and resulted in a crucial set of data categorized by geography, time of day, and pricing level. The goals of the study remained: reducing congestion, generating additional revenue for the governing body, and promoting fairness.
Once you view the presentation, see WSP.com for additional information, including the Metro Vancouver Mobility Study and full Congestion Charging Report:
https://www.wsp.com/en-CA/insights/ca-four-reasons-why-cities-should-consider-congestion-charging
This presentation by Damien GERADIN, Partner, EUCLID Law, was made during the discussion “Taxi, ride-sourcing and ride-sharing services” held at the 65th meeting of the OECD Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 4 June 2018. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at http://oe.cd/2gs.
鄭世昐/未來城市的任意門 (Mobility on Demand for Future Cities)台灣資料科學年會
Shih-Fen Cheng is Associate Professor of Information Systems and Deputy Director of the Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing and Engineering Corp Lab at the Singapore Management University. He received his Ph.D. degree in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and B.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University.
His research focuses on the modeling and optimization of complex systems in engineering and business domains. He is particularly interested in the application areas of transportation, computational markets, and human decision-making. He is a member of INFORMS, AAAI, and IEEE, and serves as Area Editor for Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
4. Macrotransit
Source: The State of Demand-Responsive Transit in Canada, July, 2020. Dr. Willem Klumpenhouwer Postdoctoral Fellow Transit Analytics Lab
University of Toronto
5. Designing a Service Area for On-Demand Transit
Complementary System Supplementary System
6. Primary Service Area for
On-Demand Transit
- Include all bus stops
- Coordinate with outside
services like fixed route
and door to door
- Simple and convenient for
all riders
7. Service Area Example:
RTC’s “Trip-to-Strip”
Microtransit Pilot
June - December 2019
Do people live, work,
and shop in your
service area?
8. The “Walmart” Principle:
Any successful on-demand
transit service area will have a
large retail and employment
center that generates the
most trips
14. Ozark Regional Transit
- Only one bus route to cover entire
city of Rogers
- Limited resources for any service
- No idea where the demand was or
where it wanted to go
15. Gaps in Stop Coverage
The Golden Rule
● 1300 foot radius drawn from every stop
● This is the most empirically supported optimal
distance between transit stops according to
both survey data and user behaviour
16. Opportunities for
Coverage Expansion
Why Even Bother?
● These gaps exist because they aren’t
popular to begin with
● In a fixed route, introducing stops in
these low demand areas means less
efficiency and higher costs
● In ODT, the vehicle only visits these
stops when there is a request
Convenience + Latent Demand
● Riders in these areas will have transfer
free mobility across Rogers
● Opening up additional stops = tapping
into latent demand from riders who’s
travel is now convenient
● Only 7 stops radically improve coverage
in key points of interest
18. Typical Service Cost
What’s the cost for night service in a city of 75,000?
- $100 per vehicle hour
- 5 days/week
- 3 hours/day
- 8 buses
- 10 riders/SH
- 240 riders/day
- $10/trip
$624,000 Annual Cost of Night Service
$78,000 Annual Cost per vehicle for Night Service
20. Secondary Objectives
• Increasing Ridership: On-demand
transit can increase the amount
of riders that an existing service
can carry without increasing
service hours
• Increasing Coverage: More bus
stops can be covered by the
same number of vehicles without
increasing service hours
21. Tertiary Objectives
● Saving bus maintenance / gas
● Gathering data
● Replacing consultants
● Collecting payments
● Automating dispatch
● Improving rider experience
● Reducing environmental impacts
● Covering transit deserts or
disadvantaged communities
● Providing first/last mile service
22. Questions to ask yourself as a designer
Who - is going to ride this?
What - are the resources available?
Where - is best for the service area?
When - is the best time to run this?
Why - do you want to do this?
23. Once you know what you want, you only have to decide HOW
Ride-hailing Services On-Demand Microtransit On-Demand Macrotransit
Rides per service hour: 1-2
Cost per trip: $7-$44
Service area size: 1-5 sq.
miles
Rides per service hour: 3-6
Cost per trip: $20
Service area size: 2-10 sq.
miles
Rides per service hour: 20-30
Cost per trip: $4.60
Service area size: 10-60 sq.
miles
