A data-driven impact evaluation of Hurricane Harvey from mobile phone data

Author(s):  
Aude Marzuoli ◽  
Fengmei Liu
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1372-1391
Author(s):  
Alessandro Alla ◽  
Caterina Balzotti ◽  
Maya Briani ◽  
Emiliano Cristiani

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7131
Author(s):  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Jianguang Xie ◽  
Fan Ding

With the finishing of the construction of the main body of a freeway network, adequately monitoring the traffic status of the network has become an urgent need for both travelers and transportation operators. Various methods are proposed to collect traffic information for this purpose. In this article, a data-driven feature-based learning application is implemented to detect segment traffic status using mobile phone data, building on the practical success of deep learning models in other fields. The traffic status estimation is achieved via the application of a three-level long, short-term memory model. Two phone features are extracted from the raw mobile phone data. A large-scale field experiment was conducted using actual data in Jiangsu, China collected over the “National Holiday Golden Week” of 2014. To evaluate the performance, both precision and recall scores are given along with the overall accuracy. The final results of the large-scale experiment indicate that the proposed application performed well and can be an emerging solution for traffic state monitoring when only limited roadside sensing devices are installed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Jin Ki Eom ◽  
Kwang-Sub Lee ◽  
Ho-Chan Kwak ◽  
Ji Young Song ◽  
Myeong-Eon Seong

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Khataee ◽  
Istvan Scheuring ◽  
Andras Czirok ◽  
Zoltan Neufeld

AbstractA better understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic responds to social distancing efforts is required for the control of future outbreaks and to calibrate partial lock-downs. We present quantitative relationships between key parameters characterizing the COVID-19 epidemiology and social distancing efforts of nine selected European countries. Epidemiological parameters were extracted from the number of daily deaths data, while mitigation efforts are estimated from mobile phone tracking data. The decrease of the basic reproductive number ($$R_0$$ R 0 ) as well as the duration of the initial exponential expansion phase of the epidemic strongly correlates with the magnitude of mobility reduction. Utilizing these relationships we decipher the relative impact of the timing and the extent of social distancing on the total death burden of the pandemic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonhard Menges

AbstractA standard account of privacy says that it is essentially a kind of control over personal information. Many privacy scholars have argued against this claim by relying on so-called threatened loss cases. In these cases, personal information about an agent is easily available to another person, but not accessed. Critics contend that control accounts have the implausible implication that the privacy of the relevant agent is diminished in threatened loss cases. Recently, threatened loss cases have become important because Edward Snowden’s revelation of how the NSA and GCHQ collected Internet and mobile phone data presents us with a gigantic, real-life threatened loss case. In this paper, I will defend the control account of privacy against the argument that is based on threatened loss cases. I will do so by developing a new version of the control account that implies that the agents’ privacy is not diminished in threatened loss cases.


Author(s):  
Yudong Guo ◽  
Fei Yang ◽  
Peter Jing Jin ◽  
Haode Liu ◽  
Sai Ma ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xintao Liu ◽  
Jianwei Huang ◽  
Jianhui Lai ◽  
Junwei Zhang ◽  
Ahmad M. Senousi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Zhenghong Peng ◽  
Guikai Bai ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
Lingbo Liu ◽  
Yang Yu

Obtaining the time and space features of the travel of urban residents can facilitate urban traffic optimization and urban planning. As traditional methods often have limited sample coverage and lack timeliness, the application of big data such as mobile phone data in urban studies makes it possible to rapidly acquire the features of residents’ travel. However, few studies have attempted to use them to recognize the travel modes of residents. Based on mobile phone call detail records and the Web MapAPI, the present study proposes a method to recognize the travel mode of urban residents. The main processes include: (a) using DBSCAN clustering to analyze each user’s important location points and identify their main travel trajectories; (b) using an online map API to analyze user’s means of travel; (c) comparing the two to recognize the travel mode of residents. Applying this method in a GIS platform can further help obtain the traffic flow of various means, such as walking, driving, and public transit, on different roads during peak hours on weekdays. Results are cross-checked with other data sources and are proven effective. Besides recognizing travel modes of residents, the proposed method can also be applied for studies such as travel costs, housing–job balance, and road traffic pressure. The study acquires about 6 million residents’ travel modes, working place and residence information, and analyzes the means of travel and traffic flow in the commuting of 3 million residents using the proposed method. The findings not only provide new ideas for the collection and application of urban traffic information, but also provide data support for urban planning and traffic management.


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