A multi-objective approach for DRT service using tabu search

February 19, 2021Posted inPublications
Nowadays elderly population accounted, in some countries, by more than 20% of the population, and such value tends to increase. In urban congested areas, this is a challenge to public transport systems, as elderly people may have sensory, cognitive or motor impairments that may require new types of services, such as Demand Responsive Transport (DRT). In our work, we explored…

Accessibility as an indicator to estimate social exclusion in public transport

February 12, 2021Posted inPublications
Accessibility is one of the key measures of urban transportation planning. However, this measure is usually quantified in a rather standardized way. In order to make it more flexible and robust, we used the concept of the 6-minute walking distance (6MWD) to measure accurately the walking ability for different groups of the population. The proposed tool was applied to the…

Luís Simões S.A., is collaborating with the opti-MOVES

February 3, 2021Posted inMeetings, Partnerships
Luís Simões S.A., a logistics company leader on the Iberian Peninsula market, is collaborating with the team of the opti-MOVES project. The main idea of such partnership is to demonstrate that the innovative algorithms developed in the scope of the opti-MOVES project, for operations management of public transport, can also be applied for managing logistic processes. The kick-off meeting of…

Horários do Funchal is collaborating with the opti-MOVES

January 29, 2021Posted inPartnerships
The public transport company Horários do Funchal Transportes Públicos S.A., located at Madeira island, is collaborating with the team of the opti-MOVES project. The main goal of this partnership is to automatically discover the vehicle's operations using geolocation data. The main challenge of this collaboration is to assess whether the algorithms developed in the scope of the project are robust enough to…

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

Workshop: Requirements specification of a Decision Support System for Managing Intermodal Public Transport

February 27, 2020Posted inMeetings
On February 27h, 2020, João Sousa, former M.Sc. student in Mechanical Engineering at FEUP, carried out a workshop session entitled Requirements specification of a Decision Support System for Managing Intermodal Public Transport. The workshop took place as a session of GITMob (Working group in Transport and Mobility) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. The goal was…

Invited talk: Urban Mobility Intelligence from Big Data

October 14, 2019Posted inMeetings
On October 14th 2019, Joel Ribeiro presented the session #14 of GITMob (Working group in Transport and Mobility) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. The session was entitled Urban Mobility Intelligence from Big Data. Further information about the session can be found here.