Title
Extracting Activity Patterns From Taxi Trajectory Data: A Two-Layer Framework Using Spatio-Temporal Clustering, Bayesian Probability And Monte Carlo Simulation
Abstract
Global positioning system (GPS) data generated from taxi trips is a valuable source of information that offers an insight into travel behaviours of urban populations with high spatio-temporal resolution. However, in its raw form, GPS taxi data does not offer information on the purpose (or intended activity) of travel. In this context, to enhance the utility of taxi GPS data sets, we propose a two-layer framework to identify the related activities of each taxi trip automatically and estimate the return trips and successive activities after the trip, by using geographic point-of-interest (POI) data and a combination of spatio-temporal clustering, Bayesian inference and Monte Carlo simulation. Two million taxi trips in New York, the United States of America, and ten million taxi trips in Shenzhen, China, are used as inputs for the two-layer framework. To validate each layer of the framework, we collect 6,003 trip diaries in New York and 712 questionnaire surveys in Shenzhen. The results show that the first layer of the framework performs better than comparable methods published in the literature, while the second layer has high accuracy when inferring return trips.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1080/13658816.2019.1641715
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Spatio-temporal clustering, Bayesian probabilities, Monte Carlo simulation, travel behaviours
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1365-8816
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuhui Gong110.37
John Cartlidge2248.51
Ruibin Bai3255.36
Yang Yue4404.55
Qingquan Li51181135.06
Guoping Qiu61306117.19