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... 8 2.1 Research Objectives The objectives of the research were (a) to evaluate the extent to which cell phone data accurately reflect daily travel and (b)
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... Travel Behavior from Cell Phone Data 9 2.2 Current Practice: Data The current practice of regional model development and implementation has its origins in the early 1960s with major modeling efforts such as those in Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan. The overall approach is rooted in the collection of survey data and their analysis with various statistical modeling techniques.
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... 10 Cell Phone Location Data for Travel Behavior Analysis and Greaves 2007, Richardson et al.
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... Travel Behavior from Cell Phone Data 11 to develop transportation plans, conduct environmental impact studies, and support infrastructure investment and prioritization decisions (Beimborn and Kennedy 1996, Van Zuylen and Willumsen 1980, Spiess 1987, Maher 1983, Lo et al. 1996, Hazelton 2003, Lu et al.
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... 12 Cell Phone Location Data for Travel Behavior Analysis With various degrees of data privacy protection in place, human activities can be observed over longer periods and on a large scale. Recent work has also found that individuals are generally predictable, unique, and slow to explore new places (González et al.
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... Travel Behavior from Cell Phone Data 13 2.7 Inferring Trip Ends and Activities The traditional approach to travel demand modeling relies on developing analytical procedures and making inferences that allow the use of a small survey sample of daily travel to represent the daily travel in a metropolitan region. Given that cell phone data do not record trips, new analytical procedures are needed to make inferences about activities and travel.
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... 14 Cell Phone Location Data for Travel Behavior Analysis 3. Mode inference is difficult.

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