We propose a novel way of linking mobile network signaling data to the state of the underlying urban road network. We show how a predictive model of traffic flows can be created from mobile network signaling data. To achieve this, we estimate the vehicular density inside specific areas using a polynomial function of the inner and exiting mobile phone handovers performed by the base stations covering those areas. We can then use the aggregated handovers as flow proxies alongside the density proxy to directly estimate an average velocity within an area. We evaluate the model in a simulation study of Luxembourg city and generalize our findings using a real-world data set extracted from the LTE network of a Luxembourg operator. By predicting the real traffic states as measured through floating car data, we achieve a mean absolute percentage error of 11.12%. Furthermore, in our study case, the approximations of the network macroscopic fundamental diagrams (MFD) of road network partitions can be generated. The analyzed data exhibit low variance with respect to a quadratic concave flow-density function, which is inline with the previous theoretical results on MFDs and are similar when estimated from simulation and real data. These results indicate that mobile signaling data can potentially be used to approximate MFDs of the underlying road network and contribute to better estimate road traffic states in urban congested networks.


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    Titel :

    How Road and Mobile Networks Correlate: Estimating Urban Traffic Using Handovers


    Beteiligte:
    Derrmann, Thierry (Autor:in) / Frank, Raphael (Autor:in) / Viti, Francesco (Autor:in) / Engel, Thomas (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-02-01


    Format / Umfang :

    2675745 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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