The cellular network as a sensor: From mobile phone data to real-time road traffic monitoring

A Janecek, D Valerio, KA Hummel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile cellular networks can serve as ubiquitous sensors for physical mobility. We propose
a method to infer vehicle travel times on highways and to detect road congestion in real …

Cellular data meet vehicular traffic theory: location area updates and cell transitions for travel time estimation

A Janecek, KA Hummel, D Valerio, F Ricciato… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Road traffic can be monitored by means of static sensors and derived from floating car data,
ie, reports from a sub-set of vehicles. These approaches suffer from a number of technical …

Exploiting cellular networks for road traffic estimation: A survey and a research roadmap

D Valerio, A D'Alconzo, F Ricciato… - VTC Spring 2009 …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this contribution we address the problem of using cellular network signaling for inferring
real-time road traffic information. We survey and categorize the approaches that have been …

Inferring fine-grained transport modes from mobile phone cellular signaling data

K Chin, H Huang, C Horn, I Kasanicky… - … , Environment and Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to the ubiquity of mobile phones, mobile phone network data (eg, Call Detail Records,
CDR; and cellular signaling data, CSD), which are collected by mobile telecommunication …

Traffic flow estimation models using cellular phone data

N Caceres, LM Romero, FG Benitez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic volume is a parameter used to quantify demand in transportation studies, and it is
commonly collected by using on-road (fixed) sensors such as inductive loops, cameras, etc …

TRANSIT: Fine-grained human mobility trajectory inference at scale with mobile network signaling data

L Bonnetain, A Furno, NE El Faouzi, M Fiore… - … Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Call detail records (CDR) collected by mobile phone network providers have been largely
used to model and analyze human-centric mobility. Despite their potential, they are limited in …

Traffic density estimation: A mobile sensing approach

S Panichpapiboon, P Leakkaw - IEEE Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic density is one of the fundamental traffic variables used in modeling road traffic
dynamics. It measures how packed the vehicles are on the observed road space. Typically …

Steps towards the extraction of vehicular mobility patterns from 3G signaling data

P Fiadino, D Valerio, F Ricciato, KA Hummel - International workshop on …, 2012 - Springer
The signaling traffic of a cellular network is rich of information related to the movement of
devices across cell boundaries. Thus, passive monitoring of anonymized signaling traffic …

Citywide road-network traffic monitoring using large-scale mobile signaling data

Q Huang, Y Yang, Y Xu, F Yang, Z Yuan, Y Sun - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
Road-network traffic monitoring on city-scale is critical for a wide range of applications, such
as traffic forecasting, congestion identification, traffic safety, and urban planning, etc. Despite …

A tale of ten cities: Characterizing signatures of mobile traffic in urban areas

A Furno, M Fiore, R Stanica, C Ziemlicki… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban landscapes present a variety of socio-topological environments that are associated to
diverse human activities. As the latter affect the way individuals connect with each other, a …