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Record W4412030411 · doi:10.1109/access.2025.3586176

A Novel Transit Bus Number Identification Approach for Frictionless Fare Collection Using Passenger Location Data

2025· article· en· W4412030411 on OpenAlexaff
Nafise Ghorbankhani, Morteza Adl, Ryan Ahmed, Ali Emadi

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Access · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceIdentification (biology)Transit (satellite)Data collectionTransport engineeringPublic transportPassenger transportEngineeringStatisticsMathematics

Abstract

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Automated Fare Collection (AFC) systems are essential for advancing public transportation infrastructure. This study introduces a Be-In Be-Out (BIBO) framework that uses smartphone location data to facilitate frictionless fare collection by identifying public bus trips. The framework consists of two main components: a Travel Mode Detector (TMD), which operates on mobile devices to identify transportation modes and collect location data during transit, and a Journey Recognition Module (JRM), which processes the collected data in the cloud to identify bus trips. By combining GPS and General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data, the system enables efficient real-time bus trip recognition. The framework incorporates trajectory similarity algorithms such as Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Longest Common Subsequence (LCSS) within the JRM to enhance the accuracy of user-to-bus matching. Experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach, highlighting the superior performance of DTW in accurately identifying transit bus IDs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.140
GPT teacher head0.422
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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