Bus Ridership Prediction with Time Section, Weather, and Ridership Trend Aware Multiple LSTM

Public transportation has been essential in people's lives in recent years. Bus ridership is a factor in people's choice to board the bus. Therefore, from the perspective of improving service quality, it is important to inform passengers who have not boarded the bus yet about future bus ridership. However, there is a concern that providing inaccurate information may cause a negative experience. Against this backdrop, there is a need to provide bus passengers who have not boarded yet with highly accurate predictions. Many researchers are working on studies on this. However, two issues summarize related studies. The first is that the correlation of bus ridership between consecutive bus stops should be considered for the prediction. The second is that the prediction has yet to be made using all of the features shown to be useful in each related study. This study proposes a prediction method that addresses both of these issues. We solve the first issue by designing an LSTM-based architecture for each bus stop and a single model for the entire bus stop. We solve the second issue by inputting all useful data, the past bus ridership, day of the week, time section, weather, and precipitation, as features. Bus ridership at each bus stop collected from buses operated by Minato Kanko Bus Inc, in Kobe city, Hyogo, Japan, from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2022, were used to compare accuracy. The proposed method improved RMSE by 23% on average and up to 27% compared to existing methods.

Feasibility Study of Magnetism-based Indoor Positioning Methods in an Incineration Plant

In an incineration plant, remote operation from a centralized control room is now possible, but inspection and cleaning of equipment still require a worker to visit the site. When the plant owner reduces the number of workers due to operation costs, it will be standard for a single worker to visit the site. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the location of workers in real-time to detect unexpected human accidents quickly. Conventional methods use radio waves, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but there is little demand for communication equipment in the incineration plant. However, there is not enough demand for communication facilities in the incineration plant. It is too large to bear the cost of installing wireless access points, and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons just for positioning. Therefore, we are focusing on magnetism using for indoor positioning method. In addition, the incineration plant has a lot of types of equipment that contains a wide range of magnetized metals, large motors, and generators. We could observe the magnetic peculiarity at each point. Based on these assumptions, we have developed a new indoor positioning method at the incineration plant. This paper describes the development of an indoor positioning system for an incineration plant. And we propose three methods for fingerprinting matching: Point matching, Path matching, and DTW matching. The average positioning errors of these methods are 6.89 m, 0.05 m, and 0.06 m, respectively.

Leveraging IoT and Weather Conditions to Estimate the Riders Waiting for the Bus Transit on Campus

The communication technology revolution in this era has increased the use of smartphones in the world of transportation. In this paper, we propose to leverage IoT device data, capturing passengers' smartphones' Wi-Fi data in conjunction with weather conditions to predict the expected number of passengers waiting at a bus stop at a specific time using deep learning models. Our study collected data from the transit bus system at James Madison University (JMU) in Virginia, USA. This paper studies the correlation between the number of passengers waiting at bus stops and weather conditions. Empirically, an experiment with several bus stops in JMU, was utilized to confirm a high precision level. We compared our Deep Neural Network (DNN) model against two baseline models: Linear Regression (LR) and a Wide Neural Network (WNN). The gap between the baseline models and DNN was 35% and 14% better Mean Squared Error (MSE) scores for predictions in favor of the DNN compared to LR and WNN, respectively.

DataLoc+: A Data Augmentation Technique for Machine Learning in Room-Level Indoor Localization

Indoor localization has been a hot area of research over the past two decades. Since its advent, it has been steadily utilizing the emerging technologies to improve accuracy, and machine learning has been at the heart of that. Machine learning has been increasingly used in fingerprint-based indoor localization to replace or emulate the radio map that is used to predict locations given a location signature. The prediction quality of a machine learning model primarily depends on how well the model was trained, which relies on the amount and quality of data used to train it. Data augmentation has been used to improve quality of the trained models by synthetically producing more training data, and several approaches were used in the literature that tackles the problem of lack of training data from different angles. In this paper, we propose DataLoc+, a data augmentation technique for room-level indoor localization that combines different approaches in a simple algorithm. We evaluate the technique by comparing it to the typical direct snapshot approach using data collected from a field experiment conducted in a hospital. Our evaluation shows that the model trained using the proposed technique achieves higher accuracy. We also show that the technique adapts to larger problems using a limited dataset while maintaining high accuracy.