Markus RAY

Biographical note

Markus Ray is head of the business unit Dynamic Transportation Systems of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria’s largest research and development organization. Mr. Ray has been with the company for more than 12 years and in this time has contributed in various positions successfully. In the course of his activities as a project leader and his involvement in many mobility research projects he has gained extensive expertise in the field of mobility data collection based on different technologies such as smartphone sensors, mobile network data or GPS, which he has also implemented successfully in practice.

Presentation: Travel mode identification with smartphones

Public transport needs to be as efficient and comfortable as possible in order to be attractive for passengers and cost-effective for public transport operators. AIT addresses these challenges with its technology Travel Mode Identification (TMI), which is an innovative software solution automatically identifying travel modes of people carrying a smartphone without any user intervention. The technology can easily be integrated in existing smartphone-apps and automatically classifies eight different travel modes, no user intervention is required. Possible applications are e.g. simple and reliable mobility surveys and novel solutions for automated ticketing.

This presentation gives an overview about the concept of Travel Mode Identification (TMI) with smartphones, shares experiences with the service “AIT Smart Survey” in the field of mobility surveys and discusses automated ticketing applications with TMI.