Texas as a case study Predictive analytics-based evaluation of performance of public bus transportation San Antonio

Citizens in large cities utilize public transportation as an alternative to self-driving for several reasons, such as avoiding traffic congestion and parking costs and utilizing their time for other things (e.g. reading a book or responding to emails). While large cities provide public transportation as a service to their citizens, they need to consider optimizing their budget and ensuring that public transportation is available and reliable. Using our case study, the public bus transit system in the city of San Antonio, Texas, in this paper, we used predictive analytics models to evaluate the performance of public bus transportation. We used time point stops as the target variable in order to evaluate their impact on the overall performance of the system. We also evaluated methods for the detection of potential bus-time savings and reported several examples of possible savings.

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