Potentials of using social media to infer the longitudinal travel behavior: A sequential model-based clustering method

This study explores the possibility of employing social media data to infer the longitudinal travel behavior. The geo-tagged social media data show some unique features including location-aggregated features, distance-separated features, and Gaussian distributed features. Compared to conventional household travel survey, social media data is less expensive, easier to obtain and the most importantly can monitor the individual’s longitudinal travel behavior features over a much longer observation period. This paper proposes a sequential model-based clustering method to group the high-resolution Twitter locations and extract the Twitter displacements. Further, this study details the unique features of displacements extracted from Twitter including the demographics of Twitter user, as well as the advantages and limitations. The results are even compared with those from traditional household travel survey, showing promises in using displacement distribution, length, duration and start time to infer individual’s travel behavior. On this basis, one can also see the potential of employing social media to infer longitudinal travel behavior, as well as a large quantity of short-distance Twitter displacements. The results will supplement the traditional travel survey and support travel behavior modeling in a metropolitan area.     

Identifying tourists and analyzing spatial patterns of their destinations from location-based social media data

Reliable travel behavior data is a prerequisite for transportation planning process. In large tourism dependent cities, tourists are the most dynamic population group whose size and travel choices remain unknown to planners. Traditional travel surveys generally observe resident travel behavior and rarely target tourists. Ubiquitous uses of social media platforms in smartphones have created a tremendous opportunity to gather digital traces of tourists at a large scale. In this paper, we present a framework on how to use location-based data from social media to gather and analyze travel behavior of tourists. We have collected data of about 67,000 users from Twitter using its search interface for Florida. We first propose several filtering steps to create a reliable sample from the collected Twitter data. An ensemble classification technique is proposed to classify tourists and residents from user coordinates. The accuracy of the proposed classifier has been compared against the state-of-the-art classification methods. Finally, different clustering methods have been used to find the spatial patterns of destination choices of tourists. Promising results have been found from the output clusters as they reveal most popular tourist spots as well as some of the emerging tourist attractions in Florida. Performance of the proposed clustering techniques has been assessed using internal clustering validation indices. We have analyzed temporal patterns of tourist and resident activities to validate the classification of the users in two separate groups of tourists and residents. Proposed filtering, identification, and clustering techniques will be significantly useful for building individual-level tourist travel demand models from social media data.     

A two-phase model for dry port location with an application to the port of Dalian in China

This paper provides guidance for an optimal and reasonable dry port layout for the port of Dalian in China. We present a two-phase framework on the location of dry ports, which solves the selection of candidate inland cities and optimal dry port location choice, respectively. Fuzzy C-Means Clustering is applied to select alternative cities in the vast hinterland of the seaport of Dalian, with a view to identify evaluation factors that affect the location selection decision. A cost-minimisation linear programming solution is proposed, with the aid of a genetic algorithm, to choose the optimal location as well as capacity level among the candidate inland cities.     

Classification of Livebus arrivals user behavior

With the increasing use of Intelligent Transport Systems, large amounts of data are created. Innovative information services are introduced and new forms of data are available, which could be used to understand the behavior of travelers and the dynamics of people flows. This work analyzes the requests for real-time arrivals of bus routes at stops in London made by travelers using Transport for London's LiveBus Arrivals system. The available dataset consists of about one million requests for real-time arrivals for each of the 28 days under observation. These data are analyzed for different purposes. LiveBus Arrivals users are classified based on a set of features and using K-Means, Expectation Maximization, Logistic regression, One-level decision tree, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Support Vector Machine (SVM) by Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO). The results of the study indicate that the LiveBus Arrivals requests can be classified into six main behaviors. It was found that the classification-based approaches produce better results than the clustering-based ones. The most accurate results were obtained with the SVM-SMO methodology (Precision of 97%). Furthermore, the behavior within the six classes of users is analyzed to better understand how users take advantage of the LiveBus Arrivals service. It was found that the 37% of users can be classified as interchange users. This classification could form the basis of a more personalized LiveBus Arrivals application in future, which could support management and planning by revealing how public transport and related services are actually used or update information on commuters.     

一种基于数据挖掘的GIS及在航海中的应用

根据聚类分析方法中密度凝聚的思想，提出一种新的复合聚类分析算法，进一步将这种算法用于地理信息系统的数据挖掘，并应用于船舶航线的自动设计。     

信息融合技术在交通流量预测中的应用

交通流量预测是智能运输系统的一个重要组成内容，但传统的数学方法一直未能取得令人满意的预测效果。信息融合技术是最近十多年来新兴的技术。它通过合理协调多源数据，充分综合有用信息，在较短的时间内，以较小的代价获得对未来交通流量的预测。实验证明，借助信息融合理论建立的聚类分析模型和神经网络模型对未来交通流量的预测比较准确，有实际意义。     

桥梁缺损状况分级的灰色聚类法

考虑到灰色聚类指标的重要程度不同,通过引入层次分析法确定的指标权重对灰色聚类分析进行了改进,提出了定权灰色聚类分析方法.运用该方法,依据〈公路养护技术规范〉选取桥梁分部构件评价指标,建立桥梁缺损状况评价模型,对路网中多种类型桥梁进行评价分级.通过实例分析证明了该方法的简便性与实用性.     

基于自适应神经模糊推理的交通状态判别方法

文章针对交通状态具有模糊性和主观性的特点,建立能够真实反映人对交通拥塞程度感觉的自适应-神经模糊推理系统,使具有变化连续的交通流参数模糊化处理,实现了道路交通状态的准确、快速辨别。     

基于两阶段K-means聚类的道路运行状况评价方法

为有效评价道路运行状况,通过分析车辆在行驶过程中运行状态的变化,研究了一种基于两阶段K-means聚类(TSKC)的道路运行状况评价方法.针对K-means聚类数选取的任意性和聚类中心选取的随机性问题,提出基于遍历的K-means聚类方法,采用类吸引度确定聚类数和初始中心,并以此为初始条件进行第二阶段K-means聚类,得到交通模式.提出模式吸引度、路段评价指数、分布均衡度,并用这些指标来评价路段交通运行状况.以北京市朝阳区北辰东路为例进行验证,结果表明,该方法比传统道路评价方法更细致、全面、直观地描绘了车辆状态的演变过程和交通模式的分布情况,具有良好的实用性.