Ponencia
Deriving traffic data from a cellular network
Autor/es | Wideberg, Johan
Cáceres Sánchez, Noelia García Benítez, Francisco |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería y Ciencia de los Materiales y del Transporte |
Fecha de publicación | 2006 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-01-11 |
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Resumen | Acquiring high quality origin destination information for the vehicle traffic in a geographic
area is a tedious and costly task. Traditional methods are expensive, time-consuming and
generally only present a snapshot of ... Acquiring high quality origin destination information for the vehicle traffic in a geographic area is a tedious and costly task. Traditional methods are expensive, time-consuming and generally only present a snapshot of the traffic situation at a certain time. The technique developed in this paper exploits the use of data already at hand in a GSM network. Instead of monitoring vehicles flows, mobile phones flows are measured and are correlated to the traffic flow. This methodology is based on the fact that a GSM network always knows an estimated position of each terminal, referred to the location area of the base station that provides services to it. For a pilot study a GSM network simulator has been designed to generate a synthetic database with location registers, which is then processed mathematically and transformed into traffic data. Primary results show great potential of this method. |
Cita | Wideberg, J., Cáceres Sánchez, N. y García Benítez, F. (2006). Deriving traffic data from a cellular network. En 13th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services London (United Kingdom): Brintex. |
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