Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

The buyer is seeking information about an off-the-shelf system that provides passengers' origins, destinations, and transfers using Automated Fare Collection, Automated Vehicle Location, and Automated Passenger Counter data. The system should apply algorithms to infer and validate passenger movements, including origins, transfers, and destinations. It should process data nightly and provide aggregated, scaled data regularly. The buyer intends to access this data through a database hosted on Amazon Web Services.

• 11/6/2024 - RFI Published
• 11/15/2024 - Deadline for Submission of Questions
• 11/19/2024 - Response to Questions Posted Online
• 11/25/2024 - Proposal Due Date

• Process and clean disaggregate AFC, AVL, and APC data
• Calculate disaggregate ODX data on a nightly basis
• Provide aggregated and scaled ODX data on a regular basis
• Infer passenger origins, destinations, and transfers using available data
• Estimate vehicle boarding based on tap-in time and vehicle movement data
• Incorporate estimates of non-paying passengers in final data output
• Infer destinations without tap-out data for most modes
• Estimate path choices and transfers based on shortest path using vehicle location data
• Model passengers left behind due to overcrowding and service disruptions
• Provide tools for MBTA to visualize ODX data