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Towards Gateless Railway Services using GPS Location Based Ride Detection

Authors:
Jun Nemoto
Motomichi Toyama

Keywords: GPS; GIS; Railway Ride Detection

Abstract:
Gateless ticket inspection is an interesting and attractive feature that can help achieve less waiting, less fare evasion, less difficulty of use for railway services for everyone, including physically handicapped people. In this paper, we study ride route detection using Global Positioning System (GPS) as a new approach for implementing gateless railway services. We assume the gateless railway service has access to the user's GPS location through an application on their smartphone or another mobile device. This position can then be compared with the GPS location of trains in order to detect the stations at which the user boarded and disembarked. Then, railway operators can charge the user for the ride. A challenge in the ride detection for fare charge in railway services is to detect the ride correctly, even if the GPS trajectory is short, e.g., in case users only ride for one station. In order to solve this challenge, we propose a ride detection solution that uses different criteria to evaluate how far the user and train were moving between two stations. In our simulation using railway line open data provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) in Japan, we show that our proposed method reduced false positives by 25%-100% in most cases.

Pages: 29 to 32

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: March 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8386

ISBN: 978-1-61208-700-9

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from March 24, 2019 to March 28, 2019