Two papers by SafeTravelPH members were presented in the recently concluded Transportation Science Society of the Philippines (TSSP) Conference last December 7, 2023 at the National Center for Transportation Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman.
With the conference theme "Challenges and Opportunities for Just Transition to Low-Carbon Transport", two research groups from SafeTravelPH, together with a graduate student from the Institute of Civil Engineering, UPD, and a couple of staff from the Department of Transportation submitted the papers titled:
Evaluating the Fuel Efficiency and Eco-Driving Potential of the EDSA Carousel using On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) and Mobile Crowdsourcing.
Enhancing Public Transport Planning through Participatory Action Research: The Bacolod City Simulation Exercise (SimEx) Experience.
The first paper discussed the new tools in collecting bus route service, vehicle, and driver performance data using the SafeTravelPH app and on-board diagnotics, to evaluate the potential operational efficiency potentials of mainstreaming eco-driving skills and programs with drivers and operators. This study was part of the research project Edsa Bus Efficiency Analytics and Monitoring System (BEAMS) by the UP Energy Research Fund (ERF).
Meanwhile, the paper on local transport planning with the research area of Bacolod City presented a new way to assess network-based public transport planning and fleet sizing in the context of the PUV Modernization Program (PUVMP) and the Local Public Transport Route Plan (LPTRP) framework. (See more info on the Bacolod City SimEx in a previous post here in this website.)
Moving beyond the current route-based only analysis of determining the fleet size, and thus investment requirements with implications to fleet and enterprise management of operators who will modernize their fleet, the study looked at how PUV trip, ridership, and boarding/alighting data using SafeTravelPH app and other LPTRP required on-the-ground data, can be analyzed to come up with baseline demand factors such as passenger vehicle kilometers and total passenger demand per initially determined LPTRP route.
The full paper shall be made available on this website upon the publication of the Philippine Transport Journal in 2024.
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