Horn Christopher, Gursch Heimo, Kern Roman, Cik Michael
2016
QZTool – Automatically generated Origin-Destination Matrices from Cell Phone Trajectories
Advances in The Human Side of Service Engineering: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA Jerzy Charytonowicz (series Editor), Neville A. Stanton and Steven Landry and Giuseppe Di Bucchianico and Andrea Vallicelli Springer International Publishing Cham, Switzerland
Models describing human travel patterns are indispensable to plan and operate road, rail and public transportation networks. For most kind of analyses in the field of transportation planning, there is a need for origin-destination (OD) matrices, which specify the travel demands between the origin and destination zones in the network. The preparation of OD matrices is traditionally a time consuming and cumbersome task. The presented system, QZTool, reduces the necessary effort as it is capable of generating OD matrices automatically. These matrices are produced starting from floating phone data (FPD) as raw input. This raw input is processed by a Hadoop-based big data system. A graphical user interface allows for an easy usage and hides the complexity from the operator. For evaluation, we compare a FDP-based OD matrix to an OD matrix created by a traffic demand model. Results show that both matrices agree to a high degree, indicating that FPD-based OD matrices can be used to create new, or to validate or amend existing OD matrices.