WIT Press


Modelling User's Preferences Of Public Bus Transportation Using Neural Networks And GIS

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

52

Pages

11

Published

2001

Size

1,072 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/UT010321

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

R. Antunes, Y. Yamashita, A. Dantas & M. V. Lamar

Abstract

In Brazil, Public Bus Transportation (PBT) responds for the most part of displacements. However, due to low level of services provided by bus operators and the increase of informal/non-regulated transportation, there has been a sharp decrease on demand. In this context, planning agencies need now to focus on efforts towards comprehension and development of strategies to satisfy various necessities of PBT's users. As a preliminary step in this direction, this work introduces the application of Neural Networks (NN) associated to a Geographical Information System (GIS) in order to process the modelling of user's preferences in P

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