Title
Car-level congestion and position estimation for railway trips using mobile phones
Abstract
We propose a method to estimate car-level train congestion using Bluetooth RSSI observed by passengers' mobile phones. Our approach employs a two-stage algorithm where car-level location of passengers is estimated to infer car-level train congestion. We have learned Bluetooth signals attenuate due to passengers' bodies, distance and doors between cars through the analysis of over 50,000 Bluetooth real samples. Based on this prior knowledge, our algorithm is designed as a Bayesian-based likelihood estimator, and is robust to the change of both passengers and congestion at stations. The car-level positions are useful for passengers' personal navigation inside stations and car-level train congestion information helps determine better strategies of taking trains. Through a field experiment, we have confirmed the algorithm can estimate the location of 16 passengers with 83% accuracy and also estimate train congestion with 0.82 F-measure value in average.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2632048.2636062
UbiComp
Keywords
Field
DocType
types of systems,mobile sensing,train congestion,positioning,bluetooth
Mobile sensing,Simulation,Computer science,Train,TRIPS architecture,Bluetooth,Bayesian probability,Doors,Estimator
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.67
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuki Maekawa130.67
Akira Uchiyama27814.48
Hirozumi Yamaguchi337160.93
Teruo Higashino41086119.60