NTL Record

Title Understanding GPS and Mobile Phone Data for Origin-Destination Analysis
Record ID 80682
Personal Name
Creator
Chen, Cynthia; Ban, Xuegang (Jeff); Wang, Feilong; Wang, Jingxing; Siddique, Choudhury; Fan, Rong; Lee, Jaehun
Personal Name
Contributor
Sun, Sarah
Corporate Creator United States. Federal Highway Administration
Corporate
Contributor
University of Washington. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Publisher United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publication Date 20171031
Language English
Abstract Emerging datasets such as mobile phone and GPS data have now become a promising data source for many transportation planning applications, including origin-destination (OD) analyses, which serve as the basis for transportation investment and policy decisions. Generated from an entirely different process from the traditional household travel surveys, these datasets possess many characteristics that together can affect the accuracy and representativeness of the derived results such as OD matrices greatly. The aim of this report is not to develop methods for OD analysis but to gain a thorough understanding of such emerging datasets. Two datasets are studied in the study: a mobile phone dataset and a GPS dataset. The study results demonstrate the many different characteristics possessed by the two and their implications for OD analysis are discussed.
Rosap ID dot:55805
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55805
TRT Terms Origin and destination; Global Positioning System; Data collection; Data analysis; Travel demand; Trip matrices
General Subjects Big Data; Mobile Phone Data; GPS Data; Data Representativeness; Origin Destination Demand Matrices
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1787253
Contract Number DTFH61-12-D-00013
Report Number FHWA-HEP-19-027
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/80000/80600/80682/FHWA-HEP-19-027.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository