As increasing volumes of urban data are being available, new opportunities arise for data-driven analysis that can lead to improvements in the lives of citizens through evidence-based policies. In particular, taxi trip is an important urban sensor that provides unprecedented insights into many aspects of a city, from economic activity, human mobility to land development. However, analyzing these data presents many challenges, e.g., sparse data for fine-grained patterns, and the regularity submerged by seemingly random data. Inspired by above challenges, we focus on Pick-Up (PU)/Drop-Off (DO) points from taxi trips, and propose a fine-grained approach to unveil a set of low spatio-temporal patterns from the regularity-discovered intensity. The proposed method is conceptually simple yet efficient, by leveraging point process to handle sparsity of points, and by decomposing point intensities into the low-rank regularity and the factorized basis patterns, our approach enables domain experts to discover patterns that are previously unattainable for them, from a case study motivated by traffic engineers.
Discovering Fine-Grained Spatial Pattern From Taxi Trips: Where Point Process Meets Matrix Decomposition and Factorization
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 19 , 10 ; 3208-3219
2018-10-01
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