Analysis of the data of the users of the "Metropolitan" bus rapid transit system in the city of Lima for the generation of routes

Abstract

We want to optimize the routes of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) "Metropolitan" of the city of Lima - Peru, for this will be an analysis of user data, which are captured through the validators that are made by RFID cards. The data to be analyzed are around 18 million validations, data collected over a month, provided by the Instituto Metropolitano de Protransporte de Lima, it is worth noting that the data are the records of income to the BRT system. The analysis consists of obtaining the origin-destination to evaluate which stations require more buses and to have the criteria to optimize the existing routes in the BRT system.