Supporting large-scale travel surveys with smartphones - A practical approach

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 212-221

  Nitsche, Philippe ^a   Widhalm, Peter ^a   Breuss, Simon ^a   Brändle, Norbert ^a   Maurer, Peter ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; GPS; Mobility data; Mode detection; Smartphones; Transport modes; Travel survey

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SMARTPHONES; SURVEYS;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; DISCRETE HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MOBILITY DATUM; MODE DETECTION; PROBABILISTIC CLASSIFIERS; TRANSPORT MODES; TRANSPORTATION MODEL; TRAVEL SURVEYS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

ACCELEROMETER; DATA ACQUISITION; GPS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MOBILITY; MODELING; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 84902551668     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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