Paratransit Origin-Destination Measurement Based on Wi-FiScanner Survey in Makassar City, Indonesia

Abstract

Paratransit service has characteristics such as no stopping spot, no timetable, and irregular pattern because stopping depends on driver or passenger demand. This study uses Wi-Fi scanner equipment to capture media access control (MAC) address of the paratransit passenger in Makassar city, Indonesia. The objective of this study is 1) to produce a cleaning procedure to clean Wi-Fi raw data from non-passenger data, 2) to match data between ground truth and Wi-Fi, and 3) to make an OD or boarding alighting data based on Wi-Fi estimated. The result showed that 1211 of the 2925 real passengers from Wi-Fi data after MAC address processing matched with ground truth data, and the possible similarity in the number of actual passenger and MAC address is 41.4%. The trend between Wi-Fi cleaning result and ground truth is similar and the same tendency. The correlation value between Wi-Fi cleaning result and ground truth is 0.89.