2020
Authors
Campos Ferreira, M; Dias, TG; Falcão e Cunha, J;
Publication
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Abstract
Millions of people use public transport on a daily basis. Although most public transport systems use traditional ticketing approaches, based on tickets and smartcards, there are already ticketing alternatives based on smartphones. Most of the mobile ticketing solutions developed and available in the market use technologies such as Near Field Communication (NFC) or Quick Response Codes (QR Codes), and there are practically no studies on the use of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for this purpose. This paper focuses on assessing the feasibility of using BLE beacons for mobile ticketing in urban passenger transport. The study was conducted during the development of a mobile ticketing solution for the Metropolitan Area of Porto (AMP) that takes advantage of the Bluetooth technology present on the passengers' smartphones. It uses BLE beacons to track the passengers' trips from the start to the end, as part of an implementation of a check-in/be-out system. This solution was implemented as a prototype to be tested in the AMP and all the tests performed were made during the course of a pilot test of this prototype. The study consisted of a set of technical tests related with beacons signal monitoring and the gathering and analysis of passengers' feedback who participated in a four months pilot test. The results obtained suggest that the BLE technology is feasible for mobile ticketing in urban passenger transport. The paper also presents the various available deployment alternatives, identifies the main problems found and proposes solutions to solve them, filling an important research gap in the literature. © 2020 The Authors
2018
Authors
Dragoicea, M; Falcao e Cunha, JF; Alexandru, MV; Constantinescu, DA;
Publication
Intelligent Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Abstract
This chapter discusses the development of improved citizen services taking into consideration integration of agent-based modelling and simulation experience into conceiving, design and implementation activities with a strong focus on technology enabled service systems. Service design is formalized here towards the integration of customer experience, validated through service interaction modelling. Integration of user experience at design stage in the value co-creation process is a possible immediate evolution direction of projects in the Smarter Cities perspective. Guidelines for integrating a modelling and simulation perspective in service design are presented along with the Socio-Technical Systems Engineering process. The case study presented here is dedicated to Smart Transport. The chapter opens a larger discussion on specific research directions and knowledge transfer related to Smart Transport as highlighted in EU projects.
2018
Authors
Dragoicea, M; Badr, NG; Cunha, JFE; Oltean, VE;
Publication
EXPLORING SERVICE SCIENCE
Abstract
This paper describes an exploration process aligned with the core domain of Service Science inside a critical sector of Society, aiming at developing City in a sustainable, responsible, inclusive way. The paper focuses on defining the Public Safety as a Service concept in an inclusive and responsible value co-creation urban design vision for liveable cities. It explains how service intelligence can act on immaterial artefacts to transform data into information to generate value co-creation processes whose outcomes are applied to the evolution of knowledge in public safety services. Public safety is approached within a service ecosystem perspective, following the global targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction as an application perspective. Managerial implication are approached from two perspectives: establishment of governance principles with the help of Elinor Ostrom's works, and a Viable Systems Approach on the response to disasters operating rules.
2022
Authors
Ferreira, MC; Dias, TG; Cunha, JFE;
Publication
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Abstract
Mobile ticketing services allow urban transport passengers to travel in a convenient and easy way, enhancing their travelling experience. In recent years several mobile ticketing services have started to be developed and launched, but there is still a lot to be done in terms of its effectiveness, efficiency and innovation. This paper presents a micro-location mobile ticketing solution based on Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technologies, called Anda. This solution is based on a check-in/be-out scheme and requires the minimum intervention from the passenger. It is really innovative in the urban transport field, as it takes advantage of BLE technology not usually used for this purpose, it is based on a concept of post-billing with a fare optimization algorithm associated and it allows the micro-location of passengers throughout their journeys. This paper details the architecture of the solution and its mode of operation. It also presents the evaluation methodology that was followed during the pilot trial that took place in the Metropolitan Area of Porto (AMP), Portugal, during one year with 140 real passengers. A set of design lessons were identified as a result of the field tests and materialized in five mobile ticketing design dimensions, constituting important contributions to the design of future mobile ticketing services. Anda was commercially deployed in the AMP in 2018 and is used by thousands of passengers every day.
2008
Authors
Vallecillo, A; Cunha, J;
Publication
IEEE Latin America Transactions
Abstract
This special issue contains a selection of the best papers presented at the XI Iberoamerican Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Software Environments (IDEAS'08), that was held in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, on 11-15 February 2008. The papers included here provide some good examples of the research being currently conducted in Iberoamerica, Spain and Portugal in the context of Software Enginerering and Requirements Engineering.
1999
Authors
Nunes, NJ; Toranzo, M; Cunha, JFE; Castro, J; Kovacevic, S; Roberts, D; Tarby, JC; Collins Cope, M; van Harmelen, M;
Publication
OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
This paper reports the activities of the ECOOP'99Workshop on Interactive System Design with Object Models (WISDOM'99). The paper presents the workshop rational, format, the discussion framework and its four identified issues: architecture, process, notation and traceability. The results of the workshop are proposals for a meta-architecture to develop interactive systems, an user-centered software development process framework, some comments on notation issues and finally a traceability model of user interface design. Furthermore this paper contains abstracts of all position papers presented at the workshop.
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