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Developing a passive GPS tracking system to study long-term travel behavior
- Source :
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 104:348-368
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper describes development and testing of a passive GPS tracking smartphone application and corresponding data analysis methodology designed to increase the quality of travel behavior information collected in long-term travel surveys. The new approach is intended to replace the pencil-and-paper travel diaries and prompted recall methods that require more user involvement due to requirements for manual data entry and/or high battery usage. Reducing the burden placed on users enables researchers to collect data over longer periods, thus improving the quality of travel behavior research. To reduce battery use the smartphone-based application collects GPS data less frequently than other methods. Therefore, new algorithms were developed to identify trips and activities, transport mode, and even the specific vehicle used by the traveler. An important finding was the significant advantage of using users’ past data to improve mode detection results. The system was tested successfully in Zurich and Basel (Switzerland).
- Subjects :
- 050210 logistics & transportation
Computer science
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Transportation
Tracking system
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Computer Science Applications
Term (time)
Transport engineering
Travel behavior
Mode (computer interface)
Travel survey
0502 economics and business
Automotive Engineering
Global Positioning System
TRIPS architecture
Quality (business)
business
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Civil and Structural Engineering
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Details
- ISSN :
- 0968090X
- Volume :
- 104
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e72b3879ad3073c8d98ca2af5a227282