Assessing the potential of ride-sharing using mobile and social data: A tale of four cities

UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 201-211

  Cici, Blerim ^a   Markopoulou, Athina ^a   Frias Martinez, Enrique ^b   Laoutaris, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Call description records (CDRs); Geo social data; Mobile networks; Ride sharing; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CALL-DESCRIPTION RECORDS (CDRS); LOS ANGELES; MOBILITY DATUM; MOBILITY PATTERN; RIDE-SHARING; SOCIAL DATUM; SOCIAL DISTANCE; UPPER BOUND;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84908577854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2632048.2632055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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