A real-time bus arrival prediction method based on energy-efficient cell-tower positioning

It is one of the most important research problems in the field of smart buses to predict real-time and accurate bus arrival time. This paper provides a new bus arrival time prediction algorithm based on dynamic adjustment of bus speed in different bus route sections. The location of bus can be traced through the sequence of switched base stations by means of COO technology. Bus driving database is set up with previous bus driving information of each bus route sections divided by the base station switching nodes. The database is automatically updated by online data of the average speed of bus route sections. The system is developed with technologies like Java EE HeidiSQL, and Android mobile development, and is tested on the Route 387 of Beijing Bus. The results show that the system has good performance.