Cooperative transit tracking using smart-phones

SenSys 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-98

  Thiagarajan, Arvind ^a   Biagioni, James ^b   Gerlich, Tomas ^b   Eriksson, Jakob ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity classification; Bus; Crowdsourcing; Power management; Public transit; Public transportation; Realtime tracking; Smartphone; Subway

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSPORTATION; POWER MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATIONS; FUNDINGS; PUBLIC TRANSIT; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; REAL TIME TRACKING; REAL- TIME; SMART PHONES; TRACKING SERVICES; TRANSIT AGENCIES; WAIT TIME;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 78650869210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1869983.1869993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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