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Smart Campus Transit Laboratory for Research and Education

A joint effort by the Ohio State University (OSU) Transportation and Parking Services, OSU College of Engineering, OSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Clever Devices has recently succeeded in equipping the OSU Campus Area Bus Service (CABS) with state-of-the-practice sensing, communications, and passenger information technologies that have achieved operational status. CABS serves over four million passengers annually on a fleet of approximately thirty buses and operated six interconnected routes during the academic year 2009-2010. In addition to improving level of service for passengers, the technologies installed on the CABS system provide extensive data on operating performance and ridership characteristics. Because of the relatively complex campus bus transit system, the advanced technologies in operational use, the physical proximity of the system to researchers, educators, and students, the good working relations that have developed over the past decade between CABS managers and transportation researchers and course instructors, and the desire for CABS to support “the academic mission” of the university, the CABS physical and institutional infrastructure has formed the foundation of the OSU Campus Transit Lab (CTL). The objective of this project was to take advantage of this living campus lab for research, education, and outreach activities related to bus transit planning and operations.