Communications of the ACM
Wpi Researcher Wants to Transform Your Commute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute assistant professor of computer science and data science Yanhua Li has proposed an urban transit system based on a hub-and-spoke configuration with shared shuttles.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Yanhua Li has proposed an alternative urban transit system that uses a hub-and-spoke configuration with shared shuttles.
Because such a system will require a highly dynamic design, Li's team is using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create data science methods to design a framework for a streamlined system.
An analysis found routing urban trips along spokes linking to a few hubs or along direct paths is more efficient and speeds up travel times while also reducing fares.
The team currently is using transportation data from the Minneapolis-St. Paul urban area and trip demand data from taxis, buses, and subway lines in Shenzhen, China, to assess the performance of their proposed CityLines model.
"We think using data science and computer science will help push this concept further, and we're also eager to work with transportation officials and civil engineers to propel this idea," Li says.
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