Revealing intra-urban travel patterns and service ranges from taxi trajectories

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 61, Issue , 2017, Pages 72-86

  Zhang, Shen ^a   Tang, Jinjun ^b   Wang, Haixiao ^c   Wang, Yinhai ^d   An, Shi ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Movement based kernel density estimation; Spatial point pattern; Taxi trajectory; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

MOVEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXI TRANSPORT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL DEMAND; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; HARBIN; HEILONGJIANG;

EID: 85018412587     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.04.009     Document Type: Article

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