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Title:

Identifying Travel Patterns During Extreme Weather Using Taxi GPS Data

Accession Number:

01558238

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Analysis of taxi global positioning system (GPS) pickup and dropoff records in Manhattan was conducted to compare potential differences in how and where New Yorkers travel during a major winter storm in February 2013 and during fair weather conditions. The purpose of this study was to identify unique patterns of travel during a highly disruptive weather event in New York City, assess the impacts of that event on travel behavior, and demonstrate the applications of GPS technology and use of probe data in situational analyses of the interaction between environmental conditions and transportation system operations. This study finds that travelers opted to take shorter trips during the snowstorm than during fair weather conditions, and that average travel speeds during the storm were surprisingly faster than usual during the evening rush hour as commuters left work early, but slower during the overnight hours, as the storm intensified. The analysis results also indicate that taxi trips during work hours remained relatively consistent with the fair weather day in spite of the heavy snowfall; however, taxi trip volumes in the evening and overnight hours during the storm from Friday, February 8 through Saturday, February 9 were sharply lower than during fair weather, partly due to a sharp reduction in taxi supply, which lagged taxi demand in recovery in the hours after the storm’s passage.

Supplemental Notes:

Alternate title: Identifying Travel Patterns in Extreme Weather Using New York City Taxi GPS Data. This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP060 Paratransit.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-5556

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Qing, Carson
Parfenov, Stanislav
Kim, Lee-Jung

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Manhattan (New York, New York)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I70: Traffic and Transport

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-5556

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:52PM