Study on spatial and temporal mobility pattern of urban taxi services

Author

Chen, Genlang ; Jin, Xiaogang ; Yang, Jiangang

Author_Institution

AI Inst., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

15-16 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

422

Lastpage

425

Abstract

The analysis of human behavior is the basis of understanding many social phenomena. Based on a large database of taxi billing system, this paper provides an analysis of human mobility data in an urban area of using taxi services in Shanghai. By studying the spatial temporal data of taxi services, it shows that the distribution of running time interval is approximated by Power-law distribution. And it also reflects that the taxi services may have the short-time and small-scaled characteristics, which seems to be consistent with human travel patterns.

Keywords

human factors; pattern classification; public administration; road vehicles; Shanghai; human behavior analysis; human mobility data; human travel pattern; power law distribution; running time interval; small scaled characteristics; spatial mobility pattern; spatial temporal data; taxi billing system; temporal mobility pattern; urban taxi service; Bicycles; Correlation; Databases; Humans; Presses; Social network services; Trajectory; Human activity patterns; Mobility Pattern; Power-law; Taxi Services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6791-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISKE.2010.5680836

Filename

5680836