Abstract
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.One of the concerns about the use of Bluetooth MAC Scanner (BMS) data, especially from urban arterial, is the bias in the travel time estimates from multiple Bluetooth devices being transported by a vehicle. For instance, if a bus is transporting 20 passengers with Bluetooth equipped mobile phones, then the discovery of these mobile phones by BMS will be considered as 20 different vehicles, and the average travel time along the corridor estimated from the BMS data will be biased with the travel time from the bus. This paper integrates Bus Vehicle Identification system with BMS network to empirically evaluate such bias, if any. The paper also reports an interesting finding on the uniqueness of MAC-IDs.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 119-130 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bluetooth
- BMS
- Bus
- Cloning
- MAC-ID
- Travel time
- Vehicle identification and detection system
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Neuroscience