Paper Info
Title
GTFS bus stop mapping to the OSM network.
Abstract
Due to budget constraints public transportation (PT) can no longer be deployed in regions where it attracts insufficient customers. Novel techniques such as demand-responsive collective transportation (DRT) are evaluated to cut costs. This requires detailed simulations that are able to predict travel demand and include trip execution. Simulating facilities acting as feeder services to time-table based PT services requires detailed and accurate information about the PT infrastructure on a network. However, there are no public data sources that combine network and PT infrastructure data with the preferred level of detail. This led to the development of a new bus stop mapping technique that combines the OpenStreetMap (OSM) and General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) open data sources, which are maintained independently. Merging the data into a single database requires alignment. Developing bus stop mapping algorithms is challenging due to (i) inaccurate location data, (ii) inconsistent data sources and (iii) the vastly interconnected PT network and services. Due to the inaccuracy in the GTFS stop locations and in the OSM network, pure geometric considerations might lead to multiple candidate solutions to map a stop to the network. The new technique handles all GTFS trips at once and operates under the assumption that PT operators minimize the total distance driven to complete all trips.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.future.2018.02.020
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
00-01,99-00
Journal
110
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-739X
2
0.46
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Vuurstaek162.40
Glenn Cich220.46
Luk Knapen38622.42
Wim Ectors483.06
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar511842.31
Tom Bellemans67323.16
Davy Janssens723838.08