GPS-enabled automated data collection for studying individuals' activity-travel behavior

Bingxia Sun, Donggen Wang, Linyuan Xia

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    Abstract

    Global Positioning System (GPS) techniques have been utilized for collecting travel behavior data for a number of years. However, they often suffer from signal loss and signal blockage particularly in urban canyon environments. These problems prevent the GPS-based data collection system from providing seamless temporal and spatial data on human's activity-travel trajectories. Based on an overview of the problems and issues related to the application of GPS technologies for collecting data on individuals' activity-travel behavior, this paper proposes a data collection system that combines GPS and ground-based positioning technologies to provide continuous spatio-temporal information on a moving object in both indoor and outdoor environments. Methods for extracting activity-travel data from the continuous spatio-temporal information and visualizing the data are also suggested.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 14th HKSTS International Conference
    Subtitle of host publicationTransportation and Geography
    Pages95-104
    Number of pages10
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    Event14th HKSTS International Conference: Transportation and Geography - Kowloon, Hong Kong
    Duration: 10 Dec 200912 Dec 2009

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the 14th HKSTS International Conference: Transportation and Geography
    Volume1

    Conference

    Conference14th HKSTS International Conference: Transportation and Geography
    Country/TerritoryHong Kong
    CityKowloon
    Period10/12/0912/12/09

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • Transportation

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