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City-Wide Examining Transport Network Accessibility Using Taxi GPS Data

  • Jianxun Cui
  • , Feng Liu*
  • , Davy Janssens
  • , An Shi
  • , Geert Wets
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Hasselt University

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Abstract

This study has developed a city-wide method to identify all regions with poor transport accessibility using GPS data generated by taxis. This approach is composed of four major steps, including travel pattern modeling, accessibility measure building, detecting regions with poor accessibility, and analyzing specific problems. Using GPS data collected from all taxis operating in the Chinese city of Harbin, the performance of this approach is tested. In total, 10 worst regions have been identified with accessibility measures reaching only 81.3% of the overall average across the city. A serious accessibility problem to filling stations has also been discovered, in which drivers from nearly 92.6% of the residential areas have to travel longer than 30 minutes to refill their vehicles. The experimental results demonstrate the potential and effectiveness of the proposed method in detecting accessibility problems and assisting policy makers in improving accessibility situations across the city.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCICTP 2015 - Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation - Proceedings of the 15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
EditorsXuedong Yan, Yu Zhang, Yafeng Yin
PublisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Pages3588-3599
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9780784479292
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals: Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation, CICTP 2015 - Beijing, China
Duration: 24 Jul 201527 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameCICTP 2015 - Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation - Proceedings of the 15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals

Conference

Conference15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals: Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation, CICTP 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period24/07/1527/07/15

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