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Public transportation around midsize college towns has become increasingly vital as residential, and commuter populations continue to grow every year. Our research team proposes a cyber-physical system that monitors the quality of service of the transit bus system around James Madison University. By using the power of Internet of Things (IoT), it is possible to create a network of smart nodes that collect data on the bus routing efficiency and ridership. Using Big-Data gathered, improvements can be made to bus route efficiency and traffic congestion in Harrisonburg, as well as similar college towns in the future. This paper concentrates on the steps taken to improve and expand upon our current system’s network infrastructure to allow the collection of data to take place outside the range of campus WiFi. Additionally, the security of passenger data during transmission and storage from smart nodes is also addressed.
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This work was supported by the 4-VA Collaborative at James Madison University http://4-va.org/ Fall 2017. The authors would like to thank James Madison University Public Safety, and transit bus manager Mr. Lee Eshelman for allowing us to conduct our experiments.
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Salman, A., El-Tawab, S., Yorio, Z. (2020). Expanding Coverage of an Intelligent Transit Bus Monitoring System via ZigBee Radio Network. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 69. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12388-8_15
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