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Title:
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SELF ORGANIZING MAPS FOR PUBLIC-CYCLING TRANSPORT MODELLING AND MANAGEMENT |
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Author(s):
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Pablo Gay, Beatriz López, Albert Pla, Joaquim Meléndez |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-30-4 |
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Editors:
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Hans Weghorn, Pedro Isaías and Radu Vasiu |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Modelling, management, transport, cycling, self-organizing maps, SOM, complex event processing |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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119 |
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Last Page:
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126 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Nowadays, many European cities are adopting public cycling solutions to improve citizen mobility. This kind of transport is based on the existence of bicycle depots where users take and return bicycles according to their necessities. The main challenge managing this type of systems is to guarantee the availability of bicycles and free dropping spaces, any time at any depot. This is faced by using additional depots as buffers and, at the same time, vans redistribute bikes among the empty depots to guarantee their availability. However, this solution creates the necessity to know and decide where to pick and where to unload the bicycles. In this work we propose to model the bike flow among depots using Self Organized Maps (SOM). SOMs are used to identify clusters classifying bike depots according to their behaviour so bicycle movements can be decided. |
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