Research and education from a smart campus transit laboratory.

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• Creators:
  McCord, Mark R. ; Mishalani, Rabi G. ; Goel, Prem
• Corporate Creators:
  Ohio State University
• Corporate Contributors:
  NEXTRANS Center (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Research
  • Education
  • Campus transportation
  • Universities and colleges
  • Bus transit
  • Transportation--Study and teaching (Higher)--Ohio--Columbus
  • Transportation--Research--Ohio--Columbus
  • Bus lines--Ohio--Columbus
  • Universities and colleges--Transportation--Ohio--Columbus
• Publication/ Report Number:
  006OY01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Indiana
• Corporate Publisher:
  NEXTRANS Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  For approximately a decade, members of the project team monitored Ohio State University (OSU) ; campus buses serving four million passengers annually with a “homemade” GPS‐based automatic ; vehicle location (AVL), communications, and information system called BLIS (Bus Location and ; Information System). We supplied regular, system‐wide performance reports to OSU’s Transportation ; and Parking (T&P) Campus Area Bus Service (CABS), responded to special requests from CABS (generally ; resulting from customer complaints about service), and conducted research studies that exploited the ; BLIS data we archived. These research and outreach activities, along with the BLIS archived data, formed ; the first generation of the OSU Campus Transit Lab (CTL). ; Through a joint effort of T&P, the OSU College of Engineering, OSU’s Department of Civil and ; Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Clever Devices, Inc., BLIS is being replaced with an ; advanced, commercial‐grade “Smart Bus” system. Clever Devices has equipped large public bus agencies ; with such systems, but this is the company’s first implementation for a campus bus service. ; This substantially upgraded asset and the partnerships surrounding it offer the opportunity to develop ; the CTL into a unique, valuable, and recognized living lab that can simutaneously suport innovative ; public transportation research, education, and outreach. Obtaining this status will require sustained ; development that produces benefits to the multiple collaborating stakeholders along the way while ; keeping them aware of the long term potential. To assist in this sustained development, it is necessary ; to conduct a multi‐faceted effort that implements and manages the underlying physical and institutional ; infrastructure of the Smart Bus system while simultaneously producing research, educational, and ; outreach results that exploit Smart Bus data and the CTL.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17342/dot_17342_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.55 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5c59d7a22afbbbe8cacddd5794540592a467b3a361870131ffe8cabc9d3ae079