Title
AllAboard: Visual Exploration of Cellphone Mobility Data to Optimise Public Transport
Abstract
AbstractThe deep penetration of mobile phones offers cities the ability to opportunistically monitor citizens’ mobility and use data-driven insights to better plan and manage services. With large scale data on mobility patterns, operators can move away from the costly, mostly survey based, transportation planning processes, to a more data-centric view, that places the instrumented user at the center of development. In this framework, using mobile phone data to perform transit analysis and optimization represents a new frontier with significant societal impact, especially in developing countries. In this paper we present AllAboard, an intelligent tool that analyses cellphone data to help city authorities in visually exploring urban mobility and optimizing public transport. This is performed within a self contained tool, as opposed to the current solutions which rely on a combination of several distinct tools for analysis, reporting, optimisation and planning. An interactive user interface allows transit operators to visually explore the travel demand in both space and time, correlate it with the transit network, and evaluate the quality of service that a transit network provides to the citizens at very fine grain. Operators can visually test scenarios for transit network improvements, and compare the expected impact on the travellers’ experience. The system has been tested using real telecommunication data for the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and evaluated from a data mining, optimisation and user prospective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TVCG.2015.2440259
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
Spatio-temporal mining, cellphone data, visual exploration, urban data mobility, transit network
Computer science,Computer security,Visualization,Transport engineering,Societal impact of nanotechnology,Quality of service,Public transport,Theoretical computer science,Scenario testing,Mobile phone,User interface,Transportation planning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
2
1077-2626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.56
23
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giusy Di Lorenzo157434.54
Marco Luca Sbodio222320.52
Francesco Calabrese31014.21
Michele Berlingerio451028.92
Fabio Pinelli597250.96
R. Nair6587.69