Data Description The DC Taxicab trip data contains the taxi trips for either pick up or drop off locations within District of Columbia (DC), which can be downloaded from Open Data DC. The data is provided by the Department of
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What can Bike-Sharing System Data Tell Us about Operations: Case Study of Corral Service
Operations are important for maintaining daily functions of a bikeshare system (BSS). Here, we analyze and try to measure the efficiency of operating activities of bikeshare through data analytics. We take the valet and corral service as an example of
Using Data Visualization and Analytics for Understanding O-D Flows in Bike-Sharing System
In this blog, we use data visualization and data analytics to provide some basic understandings of the origin-destination (O-D) flows between stations in a bike-sharing system. Part of this blog is adapted from the following research paper: “Examining travel patterns and
What can Bike-Sharing System Data Tell Us about Mobility and Role of Bike Infrastructure
In urban mobility, travel or trip speed is important. For each bicycle trip, its bikeshare use time provides an upper bound of travel time. Particularly, for the utilitarian O-D trips, the bikeshare use time approaches the travel time if there
Open Location Platform Unlocks the Values of Integrated Smart Technologies with IoT and Big Data for Smart Cities
A platform specializing in geospatial data is often referred to as a Location Platform (LP) or Location Based Services (LBS) platform. Different from Geographic Information System (GIS), which is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present
Pedestrians and Bicyclists Call for the Innovations of Smart Transportation Technology for a Better Safety and Mobility
Although bicycling and walking were not used extensively as travel modes before, they have been showing a fast increasing trend of being adopted and used for recent years according to transportation data. More people would like to bike or walk to
Big Data Driven Smart Transportation: the Underlying Story of IoT Transformed Mobility
Growing of smart IoT has generated many major impacts on transportation development, of which one underlying big story is the thriving of big data driven smart transportation nowadays. We are moving from IT to data technology (DT) time, and we
Smart IoT in Transit Service: the Gateway to Improve Public Transportation
Smart Internet of Things (IoT) in transit service has public transits connected to the networks accessible via internet. The networks connect to each other also the external environment to share data picked up by sensors on the transits themselves, offering
Key Applications of the Smart IoT to Transform Transportation
The applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) have been growing dramatically in recent a few years. According to IDC, the transportation sector will be among the first to see a significant growth from the IoT, and the global IoT market in
Smart IoT in Transportation and Logistics is the Key Tech to Improve Cities in Motion
Today’s city has a dramatically accelerated pace and rhythm in motion, which requires a greatly improved transportation and logistics service. Many solutions of Internet of Things (IoT) have been proposed to develop the urban mobility and meet the requirements in