A series of three case studies on the semi-automation of activity travel diary generation using smarpthones
Year: 2017
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The growing need of acquiring data that is useful for travel behaviour analysis led scientists topursue new ways of obtaining travel diaries from large groups of people. The most promising al-ternative to traditional (declarative) travel diary collection methods are those that rely on collectingtrajectories from individuals and then extract travel diary semantics from the trajectories. However,most studies report on routines specific to the post-processing of data, and seldom focus on datacollection. Even the few studies that deal explicitly with data collection describe the final state ofthe collection system, but do not go at the lengths that are required to describe the decision thatwere taken to bring the system to its current state. This leads to a considerable amount of work thatis needed for designing collection systems that are often undocumented, which impedes the reuseof the aforementioned systems. In light of the aforementioned problems, this paper presents a series of three case studies behind the continuous development of MEILI, a travel diary collection,annotation and automation system, in an effort to: 1) illustrate the utility of the developed systemto collect travel diaries, 2) identify how MEILI and other semi-automatic travel diaries collectionsystems can be improved, and 3) propose MEILI as an open source system that has the potentialof being improved into a widely available semi-automated travel diary collection system.
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2607774998