Using High Resolution Mobility Data to Understand Human Behavior and Population Dynamics in Cities

A dataset of more than 500,000,000 WiFi probe requests from mobile devices, together with land use, demographic, and city administrative data, from an urban test-bed in New York City is being used to develop high resolution pedestrian mobility models in dense urban environments.

• Record URL:
  https://c2smarter.engineering.nyu.edu/understanding-mobility-patterns-and-decision-making-using-an-integrated-multi-modal-sensing-platform-in-a-quantified-community/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $142,794
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747124

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation Center (C2SMART)

  New York University
  Tandon School of Engineering
  Brooklyn, NY  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation Center (C2SMART)

  New York University
  Tandon School of Engineering
  Brooklyn, NY  United States 
• Performing Organizations:

  Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation Center (C2SMART)

  New York University
  Tandon School of Engineering
  Brooklyn, NY  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Kontokosta, Constantine

• Start Date: 20170301
• Expected Completion Date: 20190831
• Actual Completion Date: 20190930
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cities; Data collection; Decision making; Demographics; Land use; Mobile communication systems; Mobility; Pedestrians; Travel demand; Travel patterns
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01648515
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation Center (C2SMART)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747124
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Oct 17 2017 12:55PM