Transportation

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 school children 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.