====== Predicting Transit Vehicle Arrival Times ======

2 October 2001

This paper presents a computer algorithm for predicting the arrival times of public fixed-route buses at their stops, based on real-time observations of the vehicles' geographic positions.

It is the product of my research in the [[http://geolab.bridgew.edu/home|GeoGraphics Laboratory]] at [[http://www.bridgew.edu|Bridgewater State College]] over the
summer of 2001, with a grant from the [[http://www.bridgew.edu/Academic/Honors/BUROP/|Bridgewater
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program]].

  * [[http://www.glump.net/content/bus_predict/predicting_transit_vehicle_arrivals.htm|The main text]] (Also available in [[http://www.glump.net/content/bus_predict/predicting_transit_vehicle_arrivals.sdw|Star Office]] format)
  * [[http://www.glump.net/content/bus_predict/vb.htm|Visual Basic code]]
  * [[http://www.glump.net/content/bus_predict/bus_predict.rar|Download the entire paper]]

(4 May 2003) Addendum: The work has been completed and you can see the algorithm in action at [[http://www.e-transit.org/eta/|www.e-transit.org/eta/]].