The Design And Implementation Of An Urban Public Transportation Simulation And Analysis System

Today more than half of the world population lives in urban areas. Between2014and2050,the world population is expected to increase by2.4billion, passing from7.2billion to9.6billion.At the same time, the global rural population is now close to3.4billion and is expected to reachits peak in a few years. Overall, the world population is expected to be66per cent urban in2050.Massive urban population brings massive transportation needs, developing efficient transportationsystems will be the next critical challenge. And to support an efficient, intelligent transportationsystem, powerful analysis tools are required.This thesis describes a system which provides analysis and simulation services totransportation providers and the public, upon the services, deeper analysis could be perform toimprove the performance of public transportation system. This project is a part of MobilityAnalyzer, which is a sub-project of a bigger project namely IRMA. IRMA (Integrated Real-timeMobility Assistant) is a research project in progress, of the Services Engineering Laboratory ofthe University of Pavia. It is a system that targets individuals in managing the whole lifecycle oftheir mobility. The mobility assistant is aimed to support personal mobility in a near futurescenario, where green, shared or public transports are replacing the current private, carbontransportation system, one among the main concerns of cities. Mobility analyzer represents themost innovative component of the IRMA system. Mobility analyzer is based on mobility flowsaccording to various data sources, specifically public transport providers and social netwo rk.This thesis can be divided into two major parts. The first one is the simulation of scheduledmovements of the vehicles in public transportation system. The simulation is based on time tablesand other transit information (which is in GTFS format) provided by transportation providers. Thesecond part introduces a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) dashboard which reflects theperformance of the transportation system by analyzing the vehicle delays from several differentdimensions. The thesis cover the requirement analysis, system design, implementation and the testof both the two parts.