“…Smartcard data can be used to derive the origin-destination matrix, which is a vital input to public transport planning and modelling (Alsger et al, 2015). They can be used to identify activity purpose, duration, route choice, segmentation, volume and location of transit riders (Tao et al, 2014b;Ma et al, 2012;Janosikova et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2014;He and Trepanier, 2015;Kieu et al, 2015;van der Hurk et al, 2015;van Oort et al, 2015;Tamblay et al, 2016). They can also be employed to evaluate the performance of metropolitan passenger railways with respect to on-schedule rates, occupancy and operational speeds (Eom et al, 2015).…”