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August 31, 2016

Inferring urban travel patterns from cellphone data
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2016
In making decisions about infrastructure development and resource allocation, city planners rely on models of how people move through their cities, on foot, in cars, and on public transportation. Those models are largely based on surveys of residents' travel habits. But conducting surveys and analyzing their results is costly and time consuming: A city might go more than a decade between surveys. And even a broad survey will cover only a tiny fraction of a city's population. In the latest is ... read more

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