A visual segmentation method for temporal smart card data

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2017

Subject Area

technology - passenger information, ridership - behaviour

Keywords

Clustering, public transit, smart card, temporal pattern, projection

Abstract

In many cities, worldwide public transit companies use smart card system to manage fare collection. Analysis of this acquisitive information provides a comprehensive insight of user's influence in the interactive public transit network. In this regard, analysis of temporal data, describing the time of entering to the public transit network is considered as the most substantial component of the data gathered from the smart cards. Classical distance-based techniques are not always suitable to analyze this time series data. A novel projection with intuitive visual map from higher dimension into a three-dimensional clock-like space is suggested to reveal the underlying temporal pattern of public transit users. This projection retains the temporal distance between any arbitrary pair of time-stamped data with meaningful visualization. Consequently, this information is fed into a hierarchical clustering algorithm as a method of data segmentation to discover the pattern of users.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Taylor&Francis, copyright remains with them.

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