The deployment and testing of the system spanned for around two years – from March 2016 to April 2018, when we conducted rigorous data collection and analysis in Kolkata (area 1887 sq.km) in India. The experiment has been conducted on 7 source-destination pairs, with 28 different bus routes.


(S, D) Pair Source Destination Distance (km) Avg. Travel Time (min)
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
P1 Karunamoyee Ruby Hospital 10 10 15 15 9 55 55 65 65 50
P2 Science City Ruby Hospital 6 6 6 6 - 30 30 30 30 -
P3 Science City Gariahat 8 8 8 8 - 45 45 50 50 -
P4 Karunamoyee Jadavpur 15 15 20 20 14 70 65 95 90 65
P5 TCS Gitobitan City Centre I 4 4 5 6 - 25 27 35 40 -
P6 Naktala Maniktala Street 14 13 - - - 55 50 - - -
P7 Shakespeare Sharani R G Kar Medical College 14 14 15 15 - 42 58 46 46 -

Some Interesting Results

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Comparison of ComfRide recommended and Google Maps recommended routes with respect to probability of sitting

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Comparison to Competing System: (a) Memory and computation time improvement (b) Query response time improvement in ComfRide