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A Digital Twin for Bus Operation in Public Urban Transportation Systems

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Advances in technology, jointly with technology transfer and the digital transformation is leading to a new industrial revolution where digitalization enables the improvement of production and safety as well as operational effectiveness by monitoring, diagnosing and correcting process flaws. In this work, we propose a Digital Twin (DT) of a public transportation system in Badalona (Spain) for obtaining in depth understanding of the bus dynamics. We use a genetic algorithm for finding the most suitable configurations for simulating the traffic in a city based on real data. Results show that the proposed DT accurately reproduces the real traffic, the bus schedule and that it easily adapts to possible anomalies.

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This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and the ERDF (iSUN – RTI2018-100754-B-I00), Junta de Andalucía and ERDF under contract P18-2399 (GENIUS), and ERDF under project (OPTIMALE – FEDER-UCA18-108393). This publication is part of the project TED2021-131880B-I00, funded MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR. B. Dorronsoro and P. Ruiz acknowledge “ayuda de recualificación” funding by Ministerio de Universidades and the European Union-NextGenerationEU.

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain

    Patricia Ruiz, Álvaro Torné & Bernabé Dorronsoro

  2. E-Bus Competence Center, Schifflange, Luxembourg

    Marcin Seredynski

  3. Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

    Patricia Ruiz & Bernabé Dorronsoro

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Ruiz, P., Seredynski, M., Torné, Á., Dorronsoro, B. (2023). A Digital Twin for Bus Operation in Public Urban Transportation Systems. In: Hsu, CH., Xu, M., Cao, H., Baghban, H., Shawkat Ali, A.B.M. (eds) Big Data Intelligence and Computing. DataCom 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13864. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2233-8_3

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