Inferring trip purposes and uncovering travel patterns from taxi trajectory data

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 103-114

  Gong, Li ^a   Liu, Xi ^a   Wu, Lun ^a   Liu, Yu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Activity inference; Bayes' theorem; Human mobility; Taxi trajectory; Travel patterns

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEMANTICS; TAXICABS; TRAJECTORIES; TRANSPORTATION;

ACTIVITY INFERENCE; ACTIVITY INFORMATIONS; HUMAN MOBILITY; POINTS OF INTEREST; SPATIAL DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TRAVEL PATTERNS;

BIG DATA;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; GPS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOBILITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAXI TRANSPORT; TRAJECTORY;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84923288904     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1014424     Document Type: Article

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