Participation at the 24th EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting

September 9, 2021Posted inConferences
Today, Jorge Tavares presented the research work “Detection of vehicle-based operations from #geolocation data” at the 24th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting - #EWGT2021. In this work, we studied the application of diverse approaches for detecting vehicle-based operations and identified different operations related to the #bus services. The operations were characterized according to the distribution of the events, allowing…

Presentation at the 7th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference

September 8, 2021Posted inConferences
Public opinion is nowadays a valuable data source for many sectors. We analyzed the #transportation sector using messages extracted from #Twitter. Contrasting with the traditional surveying methods that are high-cost and inefficient used in the transportation sector, #socialmedia are popular sources of crowdsensing. We used BERT #embeddings, an unsupervised pre-trained model released in 2018, to classify travel-related terms using tweets collected…

Two papers accepted for international conferences

August 2, 2021Posted inConferences, Publications
Recently, two papers were accepted for presentation and publication in international conferences: Francisco Murços, Tânia Fontes, Rosaldo Rossetti, 2021. Are BERT embeddings able to infer travel patterns from Twitter efficiently using a unigram approach? IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2021, September 7-10, virtual conference. Jorge Tavares, Joel Ribeiro, Tania Fontes, 2021, 24th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting, EWGT 2021,…

Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems

November 12, 2020Posted inConferences, Publications
Our paper “Forecasting of Urban Public Transport Demand Based on Weather Conditions” has been published in the book series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” (AISC) by Springer, ISSN: 2194-5357. You can see it here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-61075-3_8