Work

Sampling urban mobility through on-line repositories of GPS tracks

Year: 2009

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We analyze urban mobility by relying on the short-term mobility traces gathered from a publicly available web-based repository of GPS tracks - the Nokia Sports Tracker service. All mobility traces are obtained from a set of kml files. We show how the data collected voluntarily by individuals, equipped with GPS-enabled mobile phones, can be used to infer accurate, large-scale footprint of urban mobility. This method, unlike others - for example, personal interviewing, is more scalable and less time consuming. It exploits the fact that the on-line masses are willing to share their experience with others.

DOI: 10.1145/1651428.1651430

Author: Michał Piórkowski

Institution: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Language: English

Topic: Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Award: NCCR MICS: Mobile Information and Communication Systems (phase I)