Abstract
Understanding the spatio-temporal characteristics of human mobility in urban areas is invaluable especially for traffic management and urban planning. An opportunity to characterize and predict urban mobility is provided by mining Bike Sharing System (BSS) trip data spatially and temporally. This study focuses on identifying highly predictable BSS users, revealing their mobility characteristics and predicting their next-place movements. In undertaking user classification, we compare between naïve subscription based classification, namely registered and unregistered users, and trip number based classification, namely commuter, regular and casual users. Our analysis of 13 weeks of London BSS data shows that users with high predictability are those with 50 or more historical trips and with commuting patterns that can be fairly represented by registered users. However, because of the diversity of usage patterns, the spatio-temporal mobility characteristics of registered users are not as uniform as commuters who are the fastest, farthest travelled, most consistent, and most predictable riders with Markovian qualities. Using only a first order Markov predictor, the prediction of trip destination based on trip origin in weekday morning is up to 78% predictable for commuters.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops |
Subtitle of host publication | UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015 |
Editors | Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, Huansheng Ning, Ali Li |
Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Pages | 159-167 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781467372114 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781467372121 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015 - Beijing, China Duration: 10 Aug 2015 → 14 Aug 2015 |
Other
Other | Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015 |
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Country | China |
City | Beijing |
Period | 10/08/15 → 14/08/15 |
Keywords
- Bike sharing system
- Characterization
- Commuter
- Data mining
- Entropy
- Markov predictor
- Next-place prediction
- Predictability
- Urban mobility dynamics