Abstract

Using GIS to Identify Trip Transfer Locations
Track: Transportation
Authors: Hong Yang

Identifying a trip is as either a single trip or a transfer trip is used for transportation planning to recognize trip patterns, design routes, and streamline scheduling. The Cubic transaction system, a fare system based on passengers, captures the passenger's boarding time, route and run information, and fare media serial number. However, spatial information to locate where the passenger boards is not captured by this system. The Intelligent Bus System (IBS) collects bus time points with spatial locations (the x and y corrdinates). By linking together information of the two systems, GIS enables transportation planners to identify each passenger's boarding location and, where applicable, transfer location. This study demonstrates an ArcGIS desktop application to identify trip transfer locations by combining the non-spatial Cubic transaction data with the spatial IBS data.