Abstract
With the emergence of new mobility options and various initiatives to increase the sustainability of our travel behaviour, it is desirable to gain a deeper understanding of our behavioural reactions to such stimuli. Although it is now possible to use GPS-tracking to record people’s movement behaviour over a longer period, there is still a lack of computational methods which allow to detect and evaluate such behaviour change processes in the resulting datasets. In this study, we propose a data mining method for describing individual persons’ mobility behaviour change processes based on their movement trajectories and clustering participants based on the similarity of these behavioural adaptations. We further propose to use a decision tree classifier to semantically explain the derived clusters in a human-interpretable form. We apply our method to a real, longitudinal movement dataset.
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See www.mobitool.ch.
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SBB DailyTracks, developed by MotionTag GmbH.
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The following modes of transport were available to the study participants for validation: Airplane, Bicycle, Boat, Bus, Car, Coach, Ebicycle, Ecar, Train, Tram, Walk. With regards to the stay points, the following purposes could be allocated by the participants: Home, Work, Errand, Leisure, Wait.
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This research was supported by SBB CFF FFS within the SBB Green Class Project, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) within NRP 71 “Managing energy consumption”, and by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) within the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER) Mobility.
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Jonietz, D., Bucher, D., Martin, H., Raubal, M. (2018). Identifying and Interpreting Clusters of Persons with Similar Mobility Behaviour Change Processes. In: Mansourian, A., Pilesjö, P., Harrie, L., van Lammeren, R. (eds) Geospatial Technologies for All. AGILE 2018. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78208-9_15
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