Transportation Analytics

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Project Date Jan. 1, 2010 - Jan. 1, 2012
Keywords: urban informatics, smart cities, urban data mining, transit prediction

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Analyzing London Underground Usage

(left) The proportion of user-trip observations that have been senn before. (right) The proportion of users who form a round trip loop with their daily travels

Traveller information, route planning, and service updates have become essential components of public transport systems: they help people navigate built environments by providing access to information regarding delays and service disruptions. However, one aspect that these systems lack is a way of tailoring the information they offer in order to provide personalised trip time estimates and relevant notifications to each traveller. Mining each user’s travel history, collected by automated ticketing systems, has the potential to address this gap. In this work, we mine and analyze public transit datasets to (a) predict personalised trip times for the system users and (b) rank stations based on future mobility patterns, in order to identify the subset of stations that are of greatest interest to the user and thus provide useful travel updates