The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Professor Marcela A. Munizaga (Universidad de Chile)
to lead a seminar entitled
Using smart card and GPS data for policy and planning: the case of Transantiago
to be held
Wednesday 21st May 2014 @ 16:00
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Room 217, Chadwick Building, Gower Street, UCL
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Abstract
The introduction of a new public transport system in Santiago, Chile, in 2007 brought to us an unexpected gift: the availability of what we now call BIG DATA; massive amounts of passive data obtained from the technological devices installed to control the operation of buses and to administer the fare collection process. London and many other cities have been experiencing the same, and sooner or later, this is likely to happen everywhere. Many researchers have seen this as an opportunity, and have developed tools to obtain valuable information from the available data. However, the case of Transantiago is particularly advantageous, because since 2007 all buses are equipped with GPS devices that generate a position record every 30s and a smartcard card called bip! is the only payment option available at buses, and by far the most popular in Metro, implying an overall 97% penetration rate. This presentation will include a brief description of the Transantiago public transport system, a description of the methods we have developed to obtain valuable information from the data available: public transport trips origin-destination matrices, speed profiles of buses, service quality indicators, time use patterns. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of what else can be obtained from this data and how it can change the way we do transport planning.
About the Speaker
Marcela A. Munizaga is an Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile and the Co-Chair of the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences ISCTSC. She is a Civil Engineer and she finished her PhD in Engineering Science (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and her Bachelor in Engineering Science (Universidad de Chile). She has over 20 years of experience in research and teaching on transport demand modelling, predictive models and microeconomic analysis applied to private and public transport. In the last few years has leaded research on smartcard data and developed applications to obtain valuable information from automatically generated databases, which have been transferred to practice and used for planning purposes. During her career she has leaded six research projects, supervised over 20 theses, edited 2 books, published 15 ISI journal papers and over 40 conference proceedings papers. Professionally, has been advisor to the Chilean Minister of Transport, and participated as transport demand expert in consultancy projects. Former: President of the Chilean Transport Engineering Society, Co-Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Transport Survey Methods Conference, Chair Time Use Observatory Workshop
Next CTS Seminar
Dr Alireza Zolfaghari (Post-doctoral researcher at Imperial College London) will be leading a seminar titled "Methodological and empirical challenges in modelling residential location choices" at Imperial College London on Wednesday 28 May @16:00.
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London.
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