Transportation

Transportation organizations use SuperSTAR to analyze and report on transportation data. SuperSTAR's easy-to-use tools allow self-service analytics and reporting, and faster and safer ways of communicating transportation information.

SuperSTAR Solutions For Transportation

SuperSTAR provides solutions for the analysis and interactive publishing of statistics for road, rail, maritime, and air industries. Transportion statistics, travel surveys, performance measurement, and infrastructure investment are just some of the areas in these industries in which Space-Time Research works.

SuperSTAR provides innovative, interesting, and engaging ways of providing transportation-related information to users. This ensures that the people and organizations who need the information can easily access it to make informed decisions.

Transportation Statistics

SuperSTAR enables users to quickly access road-related information, for example information on road crashes, so they can look for patterns in contributing factors such as time of the day, influence of alcohol, and road speed limit. Or they can analyze motor vehicle registration databases to find information on environmental factors such as fuel efficiency and engine sizes. In maritime organizations, users can access and analyze freight statistics to look for trends in container throughput.

Household Travel Surveys

SuperSTAR supports the analysis of survey data. Relationships between households, people, trips, and trip legs are all captured and analyzed in SuperSTAR so that analyzing the survey information becomes easier and faster. Because of the increasing interest in multi-modal patronage and how lifestyle choices impact on transport usage, it is becoming increasingly important for users to access and analyze survey information quickly and easily. The SuperSTAR product suite is tailorable to meet all personas associated with transport, from statisticians and analysts through to schoolchildren researching a school project.

Performance Measurement

Transport organizations are collecting increasing amounts of data, such as bus timing data from vehicle-mounted GPSs. SuperSTAR's ability to utilize very large data sets and provide self-service analytics allows users to create and analyze their own measurements, for example on-time performance (OTP) and headway reliability. This is done without programming, using simple drag-and-drop interfaces. They then save and disseminate the information via web-based applications, which allows their bus operators to access their performance information in a controlled and secure way.

Several factors can affect transportation performance, for example school holidays, public holidays, and one-off events. Super-STAR's what-if analysis enables transport organizations to improved their planning for these occasions.

Infrastructure Investment

Governments, transport organizations and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are investing large amounts of money to ensure better transport flows and more reliable services. SuperSTAR allows them to make more informed infrastructure decisions through its query-answer-query approach to analytics and reporting. Unlike other Self-Service Business Intelligence solutions, SuperSTAR can interactively analyze unit record data to segment road, rail, and freight movements and trends over time.

SuperSTAR’s Products For Transport Personas

Transport analysts and statisticians use SuperSTAR's SuperCROSS™ product to perform ad hoc analysis and tabulation over millions of records, and then visualize patterns and trends. They also use SuperCROSS to quickly respond to requests for information, and to perform what-if analysis.

SuperSTAR’s ability to count from unit record data as well as aggregated cubes allows the analysts to drill down to an individual record of transport patronage, for example:

  • ticketing information
  • an attitudinal survey response
  • individual gaps timing data for a particular bus on a route on a particular time of the day.

Transport researchers and academics use SuperSTAR’s SuperWEB2™ product as a faster, easier, and safer online tool for analyzing transportation data. SuperWEB2™ is a self-service solution that provides a number of benefits:

  • Reduces the number of requests for data that come into the organization, meaning they can spend more time doing things such as forecasting and modeling.
  • Encourages more use of the information sources by providing easier and faster ways to ask questions and interpret information.
  • Provides information in a safe and secure way because the level of access to data is controlled.
  • Reduces the risk of data misinterpretation due to SuperWEB2™'s active error prevention.

The public and communities use SuperSTAR's SuperVIEW™ product. SuperVIEW™ is designed for people who are unfamiliar with an organization's data, who do not have formal training in IT, yet still want answers to questions. It provides them with easy, engaging, and interesting ways of accessing transport information, and incorporates guided reports with interactive visualizations.

All SuperSTAR products use the SuperSTAR Self-Service Business Intelligence platform to ensure the same data is provided regardless of which product is being used. The platform provides a central point for transport organizations to control access to their data down to a field level. As the platform processes each request for data, it applies confidentiality to the information to ensure data with personal information is provided without revealing information about an individual transport patron or bus operator.

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