Measuring public-transport accessibility using pervasive mobility data

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-33

  Ferrari, Laura ^a   Berlingerio, Michele ^b   Calabrese, Francesco ^b   Curtis Davidson, Bill ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Smarter Cities Technology Centre   (Ireland)

^c IBM Worldwide Human Ability and Accessibility Center   (United States)

Author keywords

accessibility; human mobility analysis; pervasive computing; transportation networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN MOBILITY; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84873834715     PISSN: 15361268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2012.81     Document Type: Article

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