Robert CHAPLEAU
Biographical note
Professor Robert Chapleau is a civil engineer (1968) with Master and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Operations Research (Montréal, 1974), and is the founder and director of the MADITUC group at Polytechnique. His group is a long-time major contributor of the large-scale origin-destination travel surveys and has developed transit network modeling tools that are currently used by transit operators, authority and ministry of transport. The group has completed and maintained research partnerships with several transit operators in Canada including Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto and Winnipeg.
Presentation: Challenges in integrating smart cards and GTFS data to perform dynamic assignment of transit demand
Within the Totally Disaggregate Approach modelling framework, continuing research has been undertaken in improving planning methods and tools for the transit operators in the Greater Montreal Area. The smart card AFC (Automated Fare Collection) system in Montreal is a tapin only system, and it requires a lot of intelligent processing to derive trip boarding locations and destinations. The research has been successful in constructing a dynamic microsimulation for the subway where individual passenger is assigned to a specific train and where a series of performance key indicators are generated for any moment of the day. Ongoing research aims at the same modelling approach for the bus system which will integrate an activity based (obtained from household travel survey) modelling framework.
