Mobilytics- An Extensible, Modular and Resilient Mobility Platform

Chinmaya Samal, Abhishek Dubey, Lillian J. Ratliff

2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2018, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, June 18-20, 2018 2018

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Why This Matters

Urban transportation systems face increasing demand for integrated multi-modal services while maintaining reliability despite component failures. Traditional monolithic transportation management systems struggle to adapt to new services and fail catastrophically when individual components fail. Mobilytics is innovative because it provides a microservices-based architecture that enables independent service deployment and scaling while maintaining overall system resilience through distributed configuration management.

What We Did

This paper develops a modular and resilient mobility platform called Mobilytics that integrates transportation management capabilities including multi-modal routing, traffic simulation, and resilient service deployment. The platform uses microservices architecture with geospatial databases and abstract modal layers enabling dynamic addition of new transportation modes. The system addresses modularity, extensibility, and resilience challenges required for managing modern urban transportation systems.

Key Results

Mobilytics successfully demonstrated modular addition of new transportation modes and services without modifying core platform code. The platform provided real-time routing services considering multiple transportation modes and user preferences. Testing showed that system failure detection and configuration management enabled automatic recovery from component failures, with shorter downtime compared to centralized systems.

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@inproceedings{Samal2018,
  author = {Samal, Chinmaya and Dubey, Abhishek and Ratliff, Lillian J.},
  booktitle = {2018 {IEEE} International Conference on Smart Computing, {SMARTCOMP} 2018, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, June 18-20, 2018},
  title = {Mobilytics- An Extensible, Modular and Resilient Mobility Platform},
  year = {2018},
  pages = {356--361},
  abstract = {Transportation management platforms provide communities the ability to integrate the available mobility options and localized transportation demand management policies. A central component of a transportation management platform is the mobility planning application. Given the societal relevance of these platforms, it is necessary to ensure that they operate resiliently. Modularity and extensibility are also critical properties that are required for manageability. Modularity allows to isolate faults easily. Extensibility enables update of policies and integration of new mobility modes or new routing algorithms. However, state of the art mobility planning applications like open trip planner, are monolithic applications, which makes it difficult to scale and modify them dynamically. This paper describes a microservices based modular multi-modal mobility platform Mobilytics, that integrates mobility providers, commuters, and community stakeholders. We describe our requirements, architecture, and discuss the resilience challenges, and how our platform functions properly in presence of failure. Conceivably, the patterns and principles manifested in our system can serve as guidelines for current and future practitioners in this field.},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/conf/smartcomp/SamalDR18},
  category = {selectiveconference},
  contribution = {lead},
  acceptance = {40},
  doi = {10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2018.00029},
  file = {:Samal2018-Mobilytics-An_Extensible_Modular_and_Resilient_Mobility_Platform.pdf:PDF},
  keywords = {transportation management, microservices architecture, urban mobility, multi-modal routing, resilience},
  project = {smart-transit,smart-cities},
  tag = {platform,transit},
  timestamp = {Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:14:54 +0200},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2018.00029}
}
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Year 2018
DOI 10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2018.00029
Keywords
transportation management microservices architecture urban mobility multi-modal routing resilience
Research Areas
transit CPS planning
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