Mobile phones as traffic probes: practices, prospects and issues

G Rose - Transport Reviews, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The provision of road‐based travel‐time information often relies on speed data collected
from inductive loops imbedded in the pavement. While inductive loops are commonly …

Evaluation of traffic data obtained via GPS-enabled mobile phones: The Mobile Century field experiment

JC Herrera, DB Work, R Herring, XJ Ban… - … Research Part C …, 2010 - Elsevier
The growing need of the driving public for accurate traffic information has spurred the
deployment of large scale dedicated monitoring infrastructure systems, which mainly consist …

Continuing evolution of travel time data information collection and processing

PJ Tarnoff, DM Bullock, SE Young, J Wasson, N Ganig… - 2009 - trid.trb.org
An exciting new traffic monitoring technology has been developed that provides accurate
measurement of travel times as well as origin-destination data for freeway and arterial …

Space-based passing time estimation on a freeway using cell phones as traffic probes

K Sohn, K Hwang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper examines the usability of mobile cellular networks to obtain traffic information on
a freeway. The question of whether a mobile station (cell phone) can play an acceptable role …

Evaluation of cell phone traffic data in Minnesota

HX Liu, A Danczyk, R Brewer… - Transportation research …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
For decades, traffic conditions have been measured using aggregated point measurements
from loop detectors. However, new technologies have become available recently that can …

Evaluation of a cellular phone-based system for measurements of traffic speeds and travel times: A case study from Israel

H Bar-Gera - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2007 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of a new operational system for
measuring traffic speeds and travel times which is based on information from a cellular …

How much GPS data do we need?

AD Patire, M Wright, B Prodhomme… - … Research Part C …, 2015 - Elsevier
With the rapid growth of communications technologies, GPS, and the mobile internet, an
increasing amount of real-time location information is collected by private companies and …

[PDF][PDF] Empirical evaluation of Bluetooth and Wifi scanning for road transport

M Abbott-Jard, H Shah… - Australasian …, 2013 - australasiantransportresearchforum …
Recently there has been significant interest of researchers and practitioners on the use of
Bluetooth Media Access Control Scanner (BMS) as a complementary transport data source …

Operational parameters affecting the use of anonymous cell phone tracking for generating traffic information

R Cayford, T Johnson - Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual …, 2003 - trid.trb.org
This paper is an investigation of the use of anonymous tracking of cellular phones to
generate traffic information on a road network. The E911 initiative mandated by the FCC …

Detecting outliers in cell phone data: correcting trajectories to improve traffic modeling

C Horn, S Klampfl, M Cik… - Transportation research …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The use of cell phone signaling data for traffic modeling has great potential. Because of the
high coverage rate of these phones, the data can be used as an addition to or even as a …