How long a passenger waits for a vacant taxi? Large-scale taxi trace mining for smart cities

Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1029-1036

  Qi, Guande ^a   Pan, Gang ^a   Li, Shijian ^a   Wu, Zhaohui ^a   Zhang, Daqing ^b   Sun, Lin ^b   Yang, Laurence Tianruo ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arriving model; Passenger's waiting time; Smart city; Taxi trace data

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL MODELS; GPS TRACES; REAL-WORLD; SMART CITIES; TRACE DATA; TRANSPORTATION SERVICES; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS; WAITING-TIME;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; TAXICABS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84893483673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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