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The Use of Smartphone Applications in the Collection of Travel Behaviour Data

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The MOVE project deals with the collection and analysis of crowd behaviour data. The main goals of the project are to collect data through the use of mobile phones and to develop new technologies to process and mine the collected data for crowd behaviour analysis. This paper describes the different steps in the development of tracking applications for smartphones that make use of advanced data mining. The results on data collection, analysis, and reporting have led to the development and operation of an advanced urban data monitoring system.

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The authors acknowledge the support of the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology though the Flemish Living Lab for Electric Vehicles ‘Electric Vehicles in Action’.

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  1. Department of Telecommunication and Information Processing, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Sven Vlassenroot, Dominique Gillis, Rik Bellens & Sidharta Gautama

  2. Flanders Institute for Mobility, Wetenschapspark 13, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium

    Sven Vlassenroot

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Vlassenroot, S., Gillis, D., Bellens, R. et al. The Use of Smartphone Applications in the Collection of Travel Behaviour Data. Int. J. ITS Res. 13, 17–27 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13177-013-0076-6

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