A Comparative Study of Urban Mobility Patterns Using Large-Scale Spatio-Temporal Data

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Anh Dang ◽  
Jodi Chiam ◽  
Ying Li
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Temporal Data ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Spatio Temporal

scholarly journals Geosmartness for Personalized and Sustainable Future Urban Mobility

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-83
Author(s):  
Martin Raubal ◽  
Dominik Bucher ◽  
Henry Martin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Movement Data ◽  
Spatio Temporal

AbstractUrban mobility and the transport of people have been increasing in volume inexorably for decades. Despite the advantages and opportunities mobility has brought to our society, there are also severe drawbacks such as the transport sector’s role as one of the main contributors to greenhouse-gas emissions and traffic jams. In the future, an increasing number of people will be living in large urban settings, and therefore, these problems must be solved to assure livable environments. The rapid progress of information and communication, and geographic information technologies, has paved the way for urban informatics and smart cities, which allow for large-scale urban analytics as well as supporting people in their complex mobile decision making. This chapter demonstrates how geosmartness, a combination of novel spatial-data sources, computational methods, and geospatial technologies, provides opportunities for scientists to perform large-scale spatio-temporal analyses of mobility patterns as well as to investigate people’s mobile decision making. Mobility-pattern analysis is necessary for evaluating real-time situations and for making predictions regarding future states. These analyses can also help detect behavioral changes, such as the impact of people’s travel habits or novel travel options, possibly leading to more sustainable forms of transport. Mobile technologies provide novel ways of user support. Examples cover movement-data analysis within the context of multi-modal and energy-efficient mobility, as well as mobile decision-making support through gaze-based interaction.

scholarly journals Identifying multiscale spatio-temporal patterns in human mobility using manifold learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e276 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Watson ◽  
Zach Gelbaum ◽  
Mathew Titus ◽  
Grant Zoch ◽  
David Wrathall
Keyword(s):  
Manifold Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Mobile Network ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Spectral Graph ◽  
Spectral Graph Wavelets ◽  
Spatio Temporal

When, where and how people move is a fundamental part of how human societies organize around every-day needs as well as how people adapt to risks, such as economic scarcity or instability, and natural disasters. Our ability to characterize and predict the diversity of human mobility patterns has been greatly expanded by the availability of Call Detail Records (CDR) from mobile phone cellular networks. The size and richness of these datasets is at the same time a blessing and a curse: while there is great opportunity to extract useful information from these datasets, it remains a challenge to do so in a meaningful way. In particular, human mobility is multiscale, meaning a diversity of patterns of mobility occur simultaneously, which vary according to timing, magnitude and spatial extent. To identify and characterize the main spatio-temporal scales and patterns of human mobility we examined CDR data from the Orange mobile network in Senegal using a new form of spectral graph wavelets, an approach from manifold learning. This unsupervised analysis reduces the dimensionality of the data to reveal seasonal changes in human mobility, as well as mobility patterns associated with large-scale but short-term religious events. The novel insight into human mobility patterns afforded by manifold learning methods like spectral graph wavelets have clear applications for urban planning, infrastructure design as well as hazard risk management, especially as climate change alters the biophysical landscape on which people work and live, leading to new patterns of human migration around the world.

Human Movement Analysis Using Heterogeneous Data Sources

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Peixoto ◽  
Adriano Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Temporal Data ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Spatio Temporal

The analysis of urban mobility has been attracting the interest of the research community recently. The research challenges in this domain are diverse and include data acquisition and representation, human movement modeling and the visualization of dynamic geo-referenced data. Some of the direct applications for these studies are urban planning, security, intelligent transportation systems and wireless networks optimization. One of the drivers for recent work in this area is the availability of large datasets representing many aspects of the urban dynamics. Quite often, the proposed approaches are highly dependent on the data type. However, the analysis of urban dynamics could benefit from the combined and simultaneous use of multiple sources of spatio-temporal data. This paper describes the definition of a set of basic concepts for the representation and processing of spatio-temporal data, sufficiently flexible to deal with various types of mobility data and to support multiple forms of processing and visualization of the urban mobility. For this purpose the authors define a set of concepts and describe how real data from heterogeneous sources is mapped into the proposed framework. Available results obtained by the integration of geometric and symbolic data reveal the adequacy of the proposed concepts, and uncover new possibilities for the fusion of heterogeneous datasets.

scholarly journals A Display Method for Large-Scale Transmission and Transformation Equipment Load Capacity Spatio-temporal Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 1098 ◽  
pp. 012010
Author(s):  
Qin Jiafeng ◽  
Zhou Chao ◽  
Lin Ying ◽  
Wang Huajia ◽  
Yang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Load Capacity ◽  
Temporal Data ◽  
Spatio Temporal

scholarly journals Understanding the Heterogeneity of Human Mobility Patterns: User Characteristics and Modal Preferences

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13921
Author(s):  
Laiyun Wu ◽  
Samiul Hasan ◽  
Younshik Chung ◽  
Jee Eun Kang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Mobility Models ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Characterizing individual mobility is critical to understand urban dynamics and to develop high-resolution mobility models. Previously, large-scale trajectory datasets have been used to characterize universal mobility patterns. However, due to the limitations of the underlying datasets, these studies could not investigate how mobility patterns differ over user characteristics among demographic groups. In this study, we analyzed a large-scale Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) dataset of the transit system of Seoul, South Korea and investigated how mobility patterns vary over user characteristics and modal preferences. We identified users’ commuting locations and estimated the statistical distributions required to characterize their spatio-temporal mobility patterns. Our findings show the heterogeneity of mobility patterns across demographic user groups. This result will significantly impact future mobility models based on trajectory datasets.

scholarly journals Dataset Reduction Techniques to Speed Up SVD Analyses on Big Geo-Datasets

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurens Bogaardt ◽  
Romulo Goncalves ◽  
Raul Zurita-Milla ◽  
Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier
Keyword(s):  
Random Fields ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gaussian Random Fields ◽  
Large Datasets ◽  
Temporal Data ◽  
Close Approximation ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Value Decomposition

The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a mathematical procedure with multiple applications in the geosciences. For instance, it is used in dimensionality reduction and as a support operator for various analytical tasks applicable to spatio-temporal data. Performing SVD analyses on large datasets, however, can be computationally costly, time consuming, and sometimes practically infeasible. However, techniques exist to arrive at the same output, or at a close approximation, which requires far less effort. This article examines several such techniques in relation to the inherent scale of the structure within the data. When the values of a dataset vary slowly, e.g., in a spatial field of temperature over a country, there is autocorrelation and the field contains large scale structure. Datasets do not need a high resolution to describe such fields and their analysis can benefit from alternative SVD techniques based on rank deficiency, coarsening, or matrix factorization approaches. We use both simulated Gaussian Random Fields with various levels of autocorrelation and real-world geospatial datasets to illustrate our study while examining the accuracy of various SVD techniques. As the main result, this article provides researchers with a decision tree indicating which technique to use when and predicting the resulting level of accuracy based on the dataset’s structure scale.

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