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Title: Evaluating the Usability of Geo-located Twitter as a Tool for Human Activity and Mobility Patterns: A Case Study for New York City
Accession Number: 01590573
Record Type: Component
Abstract: The increasing use of new mobile devices and location sharing services such as Twitter has provided novel approaches for studying human mobility patterns with satisfactory quantities. The role of location in digital world has changed as expanding numbers of internet users including location information to their posts. These digital footprints allowed researchers to study the spatial and temporal characteristics of human activity and mobility patterns. This paper introduces an approach to collecting and utilizing geo-located Twitter status updates to report a quantitative assessment of human mobility. The results show that Twitter users follow the “Lévy Flight” mobility patterns. Moreover, the estimated mobility flows are found to be similar to the ground-truth data obtained from Regional Household Travel Survey.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ50 Standing Committee on Information Systems and Technology. Alternate title: Evaluating Usability of Geo-located Twitter as a Tool for Human Activity and Mobility Patterns: Case Study for New York City
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01584066
Report/Paper Numbers: 16-3901
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Kurkcu, AbdullahOzbay, KaanMorgul, Ender FarukPagination: 20p
Publication Date: 2016
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-3901
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 12 2016 5:42PM
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