Title :
An Analysis of Human Mobility Using Real Traces
Author :
Azevedo, Tiago S. ; Bezerra, Rafael L. ; Campos, Carlos A V ; de Moraes, Luís F M
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract :
We present a new analysis for human mobility through real traces captured in a recreational environment. The goal of this analysis is to investigate the motion components, in both a qualitative and quantitative way, and thus, to get a better knowledge of pedestrian mobility behavior. Moreover, some results based upon human mobility captured in a real scenario with GPS equipment are presented. In these captured data, we verified that the speed and acceleration components follow a Normal distribution, while the direction angle variation component and the pause time measure follow a Lognormal distribution. Finally, we show that velocity and direction angle change components of captured scenario have a temporal dependence unlike the random mobility models.
Keywords :
human factors; humanities; GPS equipment; direction angle change component; direction angle variation component; human mobility; lognormal distribution; motion component; pause time measure; pedestrian mobility behavior; real traces; recreational environment; Analytical models; Communications Society; Computer science; Global Positioning System; Humans; Motion analysis; Proposals; Systems engineering and theory; Velocity measurement; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. WCNC 2009. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Budapest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2947-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1525-3511
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917569