The design of a streaming analytical workflow for processing massive transit feeds

Hung Cao; Monica Wachowicz

Home/Archive/arXiv

arXiv · 1706.04722

The design of a streaming analytical workflow for processing massive transit feeds

Hung Cao·Monica Wachowicz

View original source ↗Read source document ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

Retrieving and analyzing transit feeds relies on working with analytical workflows that can handle the massive volume of data streams that are relevant to understand the dynamics of transit networks which are entirely deterministic in the geographical space in which they takes place. In this paper, we consider the fundamental issues in developing a streaming analytical workflow for analyzing the continuous arrival of multiple, unbounded transit data feeds for automatically processing and enriching them with additional information containing higher level concepts accordingly to a particular mobility context. This workflow consists of three tasks: (1) stream data retrieval for creating time windows; (2) data cleaning for handling missing data, overlap data or redundant data; and (3) data contextualization for computing actual arrival and departure times as well as the stops and moves during a bus trip, and also performing mobility context computation. The workflow was implemented in a Hadoop cloud ecosystem using data streams from the CODIAC Transit System of the city of Moncton, NB. The Map() function of MapReduce is used to retrieve and bundle data streams into numerous clusters which are subsequently handled in a parallel manner by the Reduce() function in order to execute the data contextualization step. The results validate the need for cloud computing for achieving high performance and scalability, however, due to the delay in computing and networking, it is clear that data cleaning tasks should not only be deployed using a cloud environment, paving the way to combine it with fog computing in the near future.

Explore related subjects

cs.CY cs.DC cs.DS

Keep this discovery

BibTeX RIS

Hung Cao, Monica Wachowicz. 2017-06-15. The design of a streaming analytical workflow for processing massive transit feeds. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04722

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related papers

arXiv2026

Work, Wellbeing, and Choice: Empirical Lessons for AI Futures

Advances in AI-driven automation have raised questions about how humans might find wellbeing in a world where paid employment is less necessary or less available than before. Paid work has been variously characterized as both a contributor and an impediment to human wellbeing. What is already known about the relationship between paid work and wellbeing? What factors influence wellbeing among people who do not work---or who do not need to work? And how might these factors bear upon prospective AI-induced economic transformations? To help provide empirical grounding for these questions, we survey the psychological, sociological, and economic literature that investigates the relationship between wellbeing and work. We draw on evidence from multiple populations, including the unemployed, retirees, lottery winners, and financially dependent spouses. This comparative review draws from studies across OECD countries, China, India, and Gulf states. We identify three key factors that mediate the relationship between work status and wellbeing: (1) agency and choice---whether the exit from work is voluntary or involuntary, as well as long-term agency; (2) the availability of alternative sources of work's latent benefits---such as volunteering, hobbies, or state-provisioned employment; and (3) social and systemic context---including cultural norms around work and the robustness of social safety nets. We draw on these three factors to derive specific implications for different AI automation scenarios, connecting the empirical evidence to concrete policy considerations.

cs.CY↗

arXiv2026

From Digital Accountability to Accountable Digitality Through Needs-Aware Information Systems: The Case of Auditable Child-Welfare Judgments

Digital accountability research asks how digital systems can, among other aims, be made transparent, explainable, auditable, contestable, and supportive of ongoing learning and improvement. This paper reverses the question: how can digital transformation make established human institutions more accountable? It theorizes this reversal as accountable digitality and specifies needs-aware information systems as the mediating mechanism. The hard and paradigmatic case is child-welfare judgment, where best-interest procedures must protect children, preserve confidentiality, and respect judicial independence while enabling aggregate learning about needs, reasons, exceptions, and disparities. The case is used diagnostically and illustratively to derive and examine the design logic, not as empirical evidence or validation. Conceptual design-oriented analysis decomposes and recombines digital and legal accountability under child-rights constraints, deriving a canonical theory-to-design chain, contingent mechanisms, implications, and safeguards. It advances IS responsibility and ethics research by showing how privacy-preserving, co-created, needs-aware information systems can support institutional self-knowledge and auditable justice.

cs.CY↗

arXiv2026

(Whose defaults?) Is artificial intelligence reorienting archaeological methods?

Generative AI and the practice of "vibe coding" are changing how archaeologists carry out computational research, but their effects on the discipline's range of methods is still understudied. In this paper, we evaluate whether large language models (LLMs) are narrowing the variety of methods archaeologists use. We first analysed approximately 119,000 archaeology abstracts from Scopus, covering publications from 2010 to 2025. Using a locally run LLM, we identified the computational methods reported in each abstract and organised them into 25 broad categories (L2) and 241 finer clusters (L3). A Bayesian Dirichlet-multinomial model of method composition within sub-disciplines found a small but credible shift in method use after 2023. However, this shift was smaller than the variation already present across the full study period. No individual technique showed a significant change, and overall methodological diversity increased rather than declined. We then ran a controlled experiment to see whether LLMs recommend a narrower set of methods than archaeologists have used in practice. Two different open-weight models were asked to suggest methods for 28 archaeological research problems, with prompts providing three levels of methodological guidance: novice, intermediate, and expert. Recommendation diversity was much lower than in the published literature, particularly without methodological guidance. The models also tended to favour methods that were widely used before 2023, and their recommendations more closely resembled the post-2023 literature. Taken together, these results are consistent with LLMs pushing methodological choice towards convergence, although our study cannot establish a causal effect. They raise a broader question: how can archaeology retain methodological diversity as LLMs become more involved in research?

cs.CY↗